The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 [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