The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the great news, (i.e. Islamic Monotheism, the Quran, which Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) brought and the Day of Resurrection, etc.), 2 About which they have been differing? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 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 it will become as gates, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 , A fitting reward. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30