Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 Entering into burning fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In an elevated garden, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 well arranged goblets, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And linen spread out. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 and how the earth is spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26