The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 Living therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 [And so We shall say:] "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30