Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace). 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 and raised couches, 13 Goblets placed (ready), 14 And cushions lined up 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 But whoever will turn away (from the Truth), 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26