The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 About the great news - 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30