The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 And made the night as clothing 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 And have appointed a dazzling 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 dense and luxuriant. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 a fitting requital, 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30