The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And made the night a cover. 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 from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30