The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth). 28 Everything have We 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