Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a Garden on high, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 raised couches, 13 and goblets set forth 14 and cushions arrayed 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 DO, THEN, they [who deny resurrection] never gaze at the clouds pregnant with water, [and observe] how they are created? 17 And the heavens, how it was raised high; 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 Then, surely, it is for Us to call them to account. 26