The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30