The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time 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 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30