The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 Recompense fitted! 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30