The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 But they belied Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, and that which Our Prophet (Peace be upon him) brought) completely. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30