The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 About which they have been differing? 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30