The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 About which they have been differing? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30