The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 No! They are going to know. 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 The night a covering, 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30