The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the Great News 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30