The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30