Surah “The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall”

as rendered by Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim — 26 verses

Have you been informed of the great talk apropos the overwhelming Event?
Some faces are then incensed with humiliation
Reflecting the heedless life they spent uselessly, unprofitably and improvidently; and now they look faint and sick with travail and fear
They are entering into Hell, to suffer the intense heat of the blazing Fire
Only to be given to drink from water bubbling in agitation and issuing from a boiling hot spring
And nothing will they feed on but poisonous, noxious, foul thorny shrubs
Which neither nourish nor pacify their hunger pains
There will be other faces radiant with delight
Pleased with doing their endeavour in life lifting to Allah their inward sight
Enjoying the exalted gardens of Bliss
No matter of little value or insignificance will they hear therein, nor will they hear ill - tongues or what is morally evil
Therein is water streaming forth from a delightful spring
Therein are dignified seats covered with embroidered cloth woven in gold and ornamented with brocade
And drinking glasses set at hand
And cushions, ranked in rows, so bedecked and ornate
And rich carpets all round
Do they - the pagan Arabs - not ponder how camels* were created
How the heavens* have been distantly elevated
How the mountains* which stabilize the earth have been firmly erected
And how the earth has been expanded* and prepared for life thereon
You just continue to exhort the people, for you are here to put them in mind of Allah
And no authority have you over them
But he whose attitude has served to disincline him from doing reverence to Allah and to turn a deaf ear to all He has ordained
Will He requite him with a condign punishment and in Hell will he forever, be detained
Unto Us shall be their return
And then, their judgement will be Our concern