The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (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 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30