The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 The night a covering, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30