The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30