Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 They will be in a lofty Garden 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 And chosen goblets. 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 DO, THEN, they [who deny resurrection] never gaze at the clouds pregnant with water, [and observe] how they are created? 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26