Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 in a garden sublime, 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 and prepared goblets, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and outspread carpets. 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 heaven, how it is raised? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 Thou art not over them a warden. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26