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, there shall be downcast faces, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 in a Garden on high, 10 Where they hear no idle speech, 11 therein a running fountain, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and goblets placed ready, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher. 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26