The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the great event, 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30