The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they differ? 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 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 are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Surely, Hell lies in wait, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 Living therein for ages. 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 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