Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 (Whereas other) faces on that Day will be joyful, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 in a Garden on high, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 and prepared goblets, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and outspread carpets. 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 how the mountains are set firm, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 Remind them; you are surely a reminder. 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 Then, surely, it is for Us to call them to account. 26