The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Verily, they shall soon (come to) know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30