The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and the night as a cover, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a return for the insolent, 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30