Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Hath there come unto thee the story of the Enveloping Event? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 therein a running fountain, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 And cups put in place 14 And cushions lined up 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26