The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 and the night as a cover, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 Requital corresponding. 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30