The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 Concerning which they differ. 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 bed, 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 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 mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 , A fitting reward. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30