Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 that is fueled from a tremendously hot fountain, 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 and pleased with the result of their deeds in the past. 9 In a Garden on high, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 Goblets placed (ready), 14 And cushions ranged! 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 and on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder. 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26