1. About what are they asking one another?

2. About the great news -

3. That over which they are in disagreement.

4. No! They are going to know.

5. Then, no! They are going to know.

6. Have We not made the earth a resting place?

7. And the mountains as stakes?

8. And We created you in pairs

9. And made your sleep [a means for] rest

10. And made the night as clothing

11. And made the day for livelihood

12. And constructed above you seven strong [heavens]

13. And made [therein] a burning lamp

14. And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water

15. That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation

16. And gardens of entwined growth.

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

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

19. And the heaven is opened and will become gateways

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

21. Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait

22. For the transgressors, a place of return,

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

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

25. Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -

26. An appropriate recompense.

27. Indeed, they were not expecting an account

28. And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.

29. But all things We have enumerated in writing.

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