The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the great news - 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30