The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30