The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 The rebels' abode, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30