The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the great news - 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 25 Requital corresponding. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30