Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Hath there come unto thee the story of the Enveloping Event? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In an elevated garden, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions arrayed 15 and carpets spread out. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 you are not their keeper. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26