The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 About the Great News 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30