The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 About which they have been differing? 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 The night a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any 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 denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30