The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 It will be a place of return 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And everything have We 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