Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 On that very Day some faces shall be radiant with joy, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 In a high Garden 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 DO, THEN, they [who deny resurrection] never gaze at the clouds pregnant with water, [and observe] how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26