The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 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 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30