The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30