The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30