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 will on that Day be downcast, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 (Yet) Going into the blazing fire. 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 in a sublime garden, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 and goblets set at hand, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And linen spread out. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 Therefore remind, you are only a Reminder. 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 will be punished by God with the greatest punishment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26