The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30