The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the great event, 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30