The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 A dwelling place for the Taghun (those who transgress the boundry limits set by Allah like polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, hyprocrites, sinners, criminals, etc.), 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 a fitting requital, 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30