The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30