The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the Great News 2 About which they have been differing? 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And everything We have recorded 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