The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 About which they differ? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 Living therein for ages. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30