The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30