Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 their drink shall be from a boiling spring. 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 and prepared goblets, 14 And cushions ranged! 15 And silken carpets spread. 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 heaven, how it is raised? 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26