The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30