The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 And dense gardens. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 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