The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ Concerning what are they disputing? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 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 when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 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