The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 a fitting requital, 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30