The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 Concerning which they differ. 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 cradle 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night as clothing 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 Recompense fitted! 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30