The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 About which they differ? 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 It will be a place of return 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30