The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 No! They are going to know. 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a return for the insolent, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30