The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the great tidings! 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 And made the night as clothing 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed 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 shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 Requital corresponding. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 But they belied Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, and that which Our Prophet (Peace be upon him) brought) completely. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 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