The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 a fitting requital, 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30