Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 In a Garden on high, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And cushions lined up 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 at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But whosoever will turn back and disbelieve 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26