Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace). 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 therein uplifted couches 13 and goblets laid out, 14 And cushions ranged 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 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 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 Then verily on Us is their reckoning. 26