The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste (the fruit of your deeds). We shall only increase your torment. 30