Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 labouring, weary, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 And cups set at hand. 14 And cushions ranged 15 and well spread carpets. 16 DO, THEN, they [who deny resurrection] never gaze at the clouds pregnant with water, [and observe] how they are created? 17 how the heavens are raised up 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 Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26