Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 On that Day faces shall be humbled, 2 labouring, weary, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 And chosen goblets. 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And linen 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 at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 Then verily on Us is their reckoning. 26