The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great tidings! 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30