Surah # 88 - Al Ghāshiya

 (Arabic: الغاشية‎. The Overwhelming, The Pall)

This is the 88th surah of the Qur'an with 26 ayaat.

                 TOPICS

                 Paradise, Hell and the miracle of creation of all things by ALLAH

      SUBJECT MATTER

 At the outset, in order to arouse the people from their heedlessness, they have been plainly asked: "Do you have any knowledge of the time when an overwhelming calamity will descend?"

 Immediately after this, details of the impending calamity are given as to how the people will be divided into two separate groups and will meet separate ends.

 One group of the people will go to Hell and they will suffer the punishments, and the second group will go to the sublime Paradise and will be provided with, blessings.

 Then the theme suddenly changes and the question is asked:

 Do not these people observe the common things which they experience daily in their lives

 Do they never consider how the camels on whom their whole life activity in the Arabian desert depends, came into being, endowed precisely with the same characteristics as were required for the beast needed in their desert life

 Let them ponder over these three phenomena and consider as to how the sky was stretched above them, how the mountains were erected and how the earth was spread beneath them

Has all this come about without the skill and craftsmanship of an All-Powerful, All Wise Designer❓If they acknowledge that a Creator has created all this with great wisdom and power, why then do they refuse to accept Him alone as their Lord and Sustainer

 After making the truth plain by this concise and rational argument, the address turns from the disbelievers to the The Prophet (salAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam) and he is told: "If these people do not acknowledge the truth, they may not; you have not been empowered to act with authority over them, so that you should coerce them into believing; your only task is to exhort, so exhort them.

 Ultimately they have to return to Us; then We shall call them to full account and shall inflict a heavy punishment on those who do not believe."