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 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 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 are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30