The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth). 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30