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

Has the news of the Dominating Event reached you

Some faces on that Day will be downcast

Laboring, exhausted. (They were in motion without action. They toiled without clear direction)

As they enter a sizzling Fire

Given to drink from a spring of burning anguish

No food for them but the bitterness of dry thorns (that they scattered to hurt others during their wayward journey through life)

Which nourishes not, nor relieves hunger

On that Day some faces will shine with Bliss

Happy with the fruit of their effort

In a Garden exalted in honor

Wherein you hear not senseless speech

Therein is an ever-flowing Spring of Grace (76:16-17)

Therein are thrones of honor

And shiny glasses set at hand

And cushions set in rows

And silken carpets spread out

Will they not, then, look at: the water-laden clouds, how they are made? (15:22)

- And at the sky, how it is raised high? (Without visible pillars (13:2))

- And at the mountains, how they are entrenched

- And at the earth, how it is spread out? (That you do not even feel the sphere, nor feel its speedy rotations (31:10), (39:5), (79:28-30))

(This is some evidence, O Messenger!) Remind them, for you are one to remind

You are not a task master over them

But whoever turns away and denies the Truth

Allah will requite him with a great requital

Behold, unto Us is their return

Then it is for Us to call them to account