The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 However, 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