The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 About the great event, 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 a fitting requital, 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30