The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they have been differing? 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 except boiling water and pus 25 a fitting requital, 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30