An-Naba

¹About what are they asking one another?

²About the great news[1821] -

³That over which they are in disagreement.

⁴No! They are going to know.

⁵Then, no! They are going to know.

⁶Have We not made the earth a resting place?

⁷And the mountains as stakes?[1822]

⁸And We created you in pairs

⁹And made your sleep [a means for] rest

¹⁰And made the night as clothing[1823]

¹¹And made the day for livelihood

¹²And constructed above you seven strong [heavens]

¹³And made [therein] a burning lamp

¹⁴And sent down from the rain clouds pouring water

¹⁵That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation

¹⁶And gardens of entwined growth.

¹⁷Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time -

¹⁸The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes

¹⁹And the heaven is opened and will become gateways

²⁰And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage.

²¹Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait

²²For the transgressors, a place of return,

²³In which they will remain for ages [unending].

²⁴They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink.

²⁵Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -

²⁶An appropriate recompense.[1824]

²⁷Indeed, they were not expecting an account

²⁸And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.

²⁹But all things We have enumerated in writing.

³⁰"So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment."[1825]

³¹Indeed, for the righteous is attainment[1826] -

³²Gardens and grapevines

³³And young women [companions] of equal age.

³⁴And a full cup.[1827]

³⁵No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood -

³⁶[As] reward from your Lord, [a generous] gift [made due by] account,[1828]

³⁷[From] the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the Most Merciful. They possess not from Him [authority for] speech.[1829]

³⁸The Day that the Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] and the angels will stand in rows, they will not speak except for one whom the Most Merciful permits, and he will say what is correct.

³⁹That is the True [i.e., certain] Day; so he who wills may take to his Lord a [way of] return.[1830]

⁴⁰Indeed, We have warned you of an impending punishment on the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth[1831] and the disbeliever will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"