The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 and the night as a cover, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And everything We have 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