The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 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 A dwelling place for the Taghun (those who transgress the boundry limits set by Allah like polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, hyprocrites, sinners, criminals, etc.), 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30