The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Nay, but they will 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 (to anchor the earth)? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time. 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 a fitting requital, 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 [And so We shall say:] "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30