The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Yes, indeed, before long they will learn all about it. 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 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30