The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 About the great event, 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30