The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the great event, 2 About which they differ? 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time. 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30