The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Yes, indeed, before long they will learn all about it. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 So that We bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 [On that Day,] verily, hell will lie in wait [for those who deny the truth] 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30