The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30