The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 About which they differ? 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Yes, indeed, before long they will learn all about it. 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30