The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they differ? 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 and the night as a cover, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 The rebels' abode, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 Requital corresponding. 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30