Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 in a Garden on high, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And arranged carpets. 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26