The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30