The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 The night a covering, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30