Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? 1 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 (Yet) Going into the blazing fire. 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari' 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful, 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 In an elevated garden, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 and cushions arrayed 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 how the heaven was raised up, 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher. 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 Then verily on Us is their reckoning. 26