The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 About which they differ? 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 Living therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 save boiling water and pus 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 and everything We have numbered 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