The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 a return for the insolent, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30