The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30