The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30