The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 Requital corresponding. 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth). 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30