Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 in a sublime garden, 10 Where they hear no idle speech, 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 and raised couches, 13 and goblets set forth 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And the heavens, how it was raised high; 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder. 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26