The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 The night a covering, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 It will be a place of return 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 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