The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great event, 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will 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 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth). 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30