The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And We have made your sleep as a rest. 9 And made the night as clothing 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 And dense gardens. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Surely, Hell lies in wait, 21 It will be a place of return 22 Living therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 , A fitting reward. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30