The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 made the night as a covering, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30