The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 and We made the day for a 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 have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 a fitting requital, 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30