The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 The night a covering, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and thick gardens grow? 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 heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30