The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30