The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 except boiling water and pus 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30