Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, 2 be toiling and worn-out; 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 that is fueled from a tremendously hot fountain, 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And cups put in place 14 And cushions ranged 15 And linen spread out. 16 DO, THEN, they [who deny resurrection] never gaze at the clouds pregnant with water, [and observe] how they are created? 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 you are not their keeper. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26