The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a fitting requital, 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 [And 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