The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 A dwelling place for the Taghun (those who transgress the boundry limits set by Allah like polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, hyprocrites, sinners, criminals, etc.), 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30