The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 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 the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a fitting requital, 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30