The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 About the great news - 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Yes, indeed, before long they will learn all about it. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 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 bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30