Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 labouring, weary, 3 roasting at a scorching Fire 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 which neither sustains, nor satisfy hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 in a garden sublime, 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 and raised couches, 13 Goblets set, 14 And cushions lined up 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 and verily, It is for Us to call them to account. 26