The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 [And so We shall say:] "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30