Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 On that Day faces shall be humbled, 2 labouring, weary, 3 they shall enter a burning Fire 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a high Garden 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And carpets spread out. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains, how firmly they are reared? 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26