The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 Requital corresponding. 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30