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 are in disagreement. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed 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 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30