Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 raised couches, 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 and how the earth is spread out? 20 So remind them (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)), you are only a one who reminds. 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26