The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 Recompense fitted! 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30