Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 labouring, weary, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 and goblets set forth 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26