The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 About the awesome tiding [of resurrection,] 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 The rebels' abode, 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 Requital corresponding. 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30