The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30