The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 No! They are going to know. 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30