The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the great event, 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 So that We bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30