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 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire. 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 (Whereas other) faces on that Day will be joyful, 8 well pleased with the result of their striving, 9 They will be in a lofty Garden 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 And goblets set at hand 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 and how the earth is spread out? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Certainly, it is to Us that they will return. 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26