The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 About the Great News 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 And We have made your sleep as a rest. 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Indeed, 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 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Surely, Hell lies in wait, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30