The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 So that We bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30