The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 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 And We have created you in pairs; 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 And made the night as clothing 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 a return for the insolent, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30