The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the great news, (i.e. Islamic Monotheism, the Quran, which Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) brought and the Day of Resurrection, etc.), 2 About which they differ? 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 The night a covering, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 Recompense fitted! 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 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