The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And dense gardens. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 It will be a place of return 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30