The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 [On that Day,] verily, hell will lie in wait [for those who deny the truth] 21 It will be a place of return 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30