The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 The night a covering, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30