The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ Concerning what are they disputing? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 a return for the insolent, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30