The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 The night a covering, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 Requital corresponding. 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30