Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 On that Day, there shall be downcast faces, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 in a Garden on high, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 and couches raised high, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 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 high?- 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 and how the earth is spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26