The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 and the night as a cover, 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 Requital corresponding. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30