The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 a fitting requital, 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30