The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30