The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30