Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 they shall burn in a Scorching Fire; 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 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 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And cushions ranged! 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 you are not their keeper. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26