The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (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 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 25 Recompense fitted! 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30