The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 and the night as a cover, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 So that We bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30