The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 a return for the insolent, 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And everything have We 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