The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 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 not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 Requital corresponding. 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30