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

Has the news of the Calamity overwhelming (everything) reached you

Many faces on that Day will be humiliated and degraded

(Forgetting Allah,) toiling (for worldly gains), sustaining (strenuous) rigours (for a fleeting luxury)

Will plunge into the Blazing Fire

(They will be) offered to drink (water) from a boiling spring

They will have no food except thorny and dry venomous herbage

(This food) will neither nourish nor gratify hunger

(On the contrary) that Day a number of faces will be (pleasing to the eye,) glowing with joy and freshness

Delighted and rejoicing over their (righteous) travail

(Abiding) in a magnificent Paradise

Where they will not hear anything absurd (as the disbelievers used to say to them in the world)

In it there will be flowing springs

And raised-up couches (laid)

And goblets (decently) set in place

And silken cushions orderly lined up

And soft and refined carpets and rugs (richly) spread

(The disbelievers wonder how all that would be arranged in Paradise. So) do they not see how the camel has been created (in an unusual form)

And (do they not observe) how the heaven is raised so high (with its vast expanse)

And (do they not see) how the mountains have been created (raised out of the earth)

(Nor do they consider) how the earth has been spread out (besides its round shape)

So, continuously admonish them, for you are but an admonisher

You are not imposed upon them (as) an oppressor and persecutor

But anyone who turns away and becomes a disbeliever

Allah will torment him with the greatest punishment

Indeed, it is to Us that they will return (in the end)

Then, surely, it is Our concern to call them to account