The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the Great News 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 The night a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 [On that Day,] verily, hell will lie in wait [for those who deny the truth] 21 A dwelling place for the Taghun (those who transgress the boundry limits set by Allah like polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, hyprocrites, sinners, criminals, etc.), 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a fitting requital, 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 [And 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