The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And dense gardens. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth). 28 And everything have We recorded 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