The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 The night a covering, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30