Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 their drink shall be from a boiling spring. 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26