The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And dense gardens. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 save boiling water and pus 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30