The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30