The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 The night a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Surely, Hell lies in wait, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 a fitting requital, 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30