The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30