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 tiding [of resurrection,] 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30