Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 labouring, weary, 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech. 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 In which are high thrones. 13 And chosen goblets. 14 and cushions arrayed 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Then, surely, it is for Us to call them to account. 26