The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And made the night as clothing 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Surely, Hell lies in wait, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 except boiling water and pus 25 a fitting requital, 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30