The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the Great News 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30