Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Well-pleased because of their striving, 9 In a high Garden. 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And arranged carpets. 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 on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 And at the mountains, how firmly they are reared? 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26