The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the great event, 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 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 mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30