The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Yes, indeed, before long they will learn all about it. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30