Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 The while they enter the Blazing 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 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 raised couches, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and carpets spread out. 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 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26