The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 About the great event, 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And dense gardens. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30