Surah “The Tidings, The Announcement”

What are they asking each other about

About the awesome tidings [of resurrection]

concerning which they are in disagreement

But they will soon come to know

Surely, they will soon find out the truth

Have We not spread the earth like a bed

and raised the mountains like supporting poles

We created you in pairs

and gave you repose in sleep

and the night as a cover

and made the day for earning a livelihood

We have built above you seven mighty heavens

and We have set therein a glowing lamp

From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance

so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants

and gardens dense with foliage

Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time

On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves

and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates

and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage

Surely, Hell lies in wait

a home for the transgressors

where they shall remain for ages

and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink

save boiling water and a stinking fluid

a fitting requital

for they never expected to be called to account

and they rejected outright Our signs

but We have recorded everything in a Book

[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

As for those who are mindful of God, they shall surely triumph

theirs shall be gardens and vineyards

and young maidens of equal age

and overflowing cups

There they shall not hear any idle talk, or any untruth

all this will be a recompense, a gift, that will suffice them, from your Lord

the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them, the most Gracious [and] none shall have it in their power to raise their voices to Him

On the Day when the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks, no one will speak, except for those to whom the Lord of Mercy gives permission, and who will say only what is right

That Day is sure to come, so whoever wishes to, let him take the path that leads towards his Lord

We have warned you of a chastisement which is near at hand, on the Day when man shall [clearly] see what his hands have sent ahead, and when he who has denied the truth shall say, Oh, would that I were dust