Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 be toiling and worn-out; 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a Garden on high, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 Goblets set, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 you are not their keeper. 22 But whoever will turn away (from the Truth), 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 and verily, It is for Us to call them to account. 26