The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the great news - 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 The night a covering, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And dense gardens. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30