The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the great event, 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 a fitting requital, 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 [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