The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 About which they differ? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30