Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 in a sublime garden, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 and raised couches, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 cushions ranged, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26