The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ Concerning what are they disputing? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time. 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Surely, Hell lies in wait, 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 Living therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30