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, weary, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 in a sublime garden, 10 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 raised couches, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 Cushions arranged, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 Then verily on Us is their reckoning. 26