The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30