The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Concerning what are they disputing? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 Recompense fitted! 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30