The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30