The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 Living therein for ages. 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30