The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the great event, 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 And made the night as clothing 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30