The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 A dwelling place for the Taghun (those who transgress the boundry limits set by Allah like polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, hyprocrites, sinners, criminals, etc.), 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 a fitting requital, 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 30