The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 About the great event, 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 The night a covering, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Surely, Hell lies in wait, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 [And 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