The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 It will be a place of return 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 Recompense fitted! 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30