The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the Great News 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30