The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And made the night a cover. 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 [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