Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 On that Day faces shall be humbled, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 Faces on that Day shall be delighted, 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 In a Garden on high, 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 And within it are couches placed on high, 13 well arranged goblets, 14 And cushions ranged! 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher. 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26