The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30