The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30