The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 It will be a place of return 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a fitting requital, 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30