The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 The night a covering, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 It will be a place of return 22 Living therein for ages. 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 , A fitting reward. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30