Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 On that Day, there shall be downcast faces, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 well pleased with the result of their striving, 9 in a Garden on high, 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 Countless springs will flow therein, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 And chosen goblets. 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And rich carpets spread. 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 sky - how it is raised? 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder. 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26