The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great news - 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 Living therein for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30