The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the Great News 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And made the night as clothing 10 And made the day for 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 from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time. 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30