The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30