The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 (It is) of the awful tidings, 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30