The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they have been differing? 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 and everything We have numbered 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