The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Then, no! They are going 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 (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 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 heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 a return for the insolent, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30