The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30