The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Concerning what are they disputing? 1 About the great event, 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Yes, indeed, before long they will learn all about it. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And We have made 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 heavy rains from the clouds 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30