The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to 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 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30