The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide 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 We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 [And 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