The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 Verily, they shall soon (come to) know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed 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 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 a fitting requital, 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30