The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 About which they differ? 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30