The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great tidings! 2 About which they have been differing? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30