The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the great event, 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And made the night as clothing 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 But they belied Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, and that which Our Prophet (Peace be upon him) brought) completely. 28 And 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