The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a return for the insolent, 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 Requital corresponding. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30