The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30