Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 On that Day faces shall be humbled, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 which neither sustains, nor satisfy hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 and pleased with the result of their deeds in the past. 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 with a flowing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 And chosen goblets. 14 cushions ranged, 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26