The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 Living therein for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and persistently rejected Our revelations. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 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