The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 And dense gardens. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 For verily, they used not to look 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 increase you not save in chastisement.' 30