Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 be toiling and worn-out; 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and goblets set at hand, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed firm? 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26