The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 Living therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30