The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great news - 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30