The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 The night a covering, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30