The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30