Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And carpets spread around. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 and on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 Then indeed, upon Us is their account. 26