The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 About which they have been differing? 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Surely, Hell lies in wait, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] 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 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30