The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30