The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 About the great tidings! 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time. 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 A dwelling place for the Taghun (those who transgress the boundry limits set by Allah like polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, hyprocrites, sinners, criminals, etc.), 22 They will abide therein for ages. 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30