The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 and the night as a cover, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 a fitting requital, 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 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