Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 they shall enter a burning Fire 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 (Whereas other) faces on that Day will be joyful, 8 Well-pleased because of their striving, 9 In a high Garden. 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 therein a running fountain, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 and goblets laid out, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher. 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26