Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 (Whereas other) faces on that Day will be joyful, 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And cushions ranged 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 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Therefore remind, you are only a Reminder. 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth, 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 indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26