The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the great event, 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 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 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30