The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 About which they have been differing? 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 Living therein for ages. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30