The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 made the night as a covering, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30