The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to 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 for rest, 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 a return for the insolent, 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30