The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30