The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the great event, 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and placed therein a hot, shining 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 dense with foliage. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 a return for the insolent, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 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 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30