The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge 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 insolent a resort, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30