The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Of what ask they? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 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 corn and herbs, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 a return for the insolent, 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 Recompense fitted! 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30