The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30