The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Verily, they shall soon (come to) know! 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30