Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 There is no food for them except thorns of fire. 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 in a garden sublime, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 and goblets laid out, 14 And cushions ranged 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 Remind them; you are surely a reminder. 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26