The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 About which they differ? 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 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 have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 a return for the insolent, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30