The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 About which they differ? 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30