The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 About the great event, 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 No! They are going to know. 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 except boiling water and pus 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30