The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30