The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Yes, indeed, before long they will learn all about it. 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 a fitting requital, 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30