The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 No! They are going to know. 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30