The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time. 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30