Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Hath there come unto thee the story of the Enveloping Event? 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 and pleased with the result of their deeds in the past. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 and on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26