The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 And made the night as clothing 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 Recompense fitted! 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30