Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a Garden on high, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 And cups put in place 14 and cushions arrayed 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26