Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 roasting at a scorching Fire 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a high Garden 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26