The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 About the great event, 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 A dwelling place for the Taghun (those who transgress the boundry limits set by Allah like polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, hyprocrites, sinners, criminals, etc.), 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 save boiling water and pus 25 , A fitting reward. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30