The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 a fitting requital, 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30