Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 troubled and tired as a result of their deeds in the past. 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 Within it is a flowing spring. 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 Cushions arranged, 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 DO, THEN, they [who deny resurrection] never gaze at the clouds pregnant with water, [and observe] how they are created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher. 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26