The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the awesome tidings [of resurrection] 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 A dwelling place for the Taghun (those who transgress the boundry limits set by Allah like polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, hyprocrites, sinners, criminals, etc.), 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30