Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 In a Garden on high, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Within it is a flowing spring. 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 And cups set at hand. 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a warden over them, 22 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Certainly, it is to Us that they will return. 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26