The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the great event, 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth 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 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30