The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the Great News 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 and the night as a cover, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30