Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 They will be in a lofty Garden 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 raised couches, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 And cushions lined up 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth, 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26