The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 About which they differ? 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30