The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 So that We bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 a return for the insolent, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30