Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 and couches raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26