The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 About which they differ? 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay, again, but they will come 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 have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 So that We bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 And gardens of thick 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 shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30