The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the great event, 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30