The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 save boiling water and pus 25 a fitting requital, 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30