Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire. 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 where they will hear no idle talk. 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 What, do they not reflect upon how the camel was created? 17 And the sky: how it was raised high? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 Therefore remind, you are only a Reminder. 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26