The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Verily, they shall soon (come to) know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30