Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that Day shall be delighted, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 cushions ranged, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed firm? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher. 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 and verily, It is for Us to call them to account. 26