The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of your deeds). We shall only increase your torment. 30