The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 About which they differ? 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 made the night as a covering, 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30