The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 They will remain in it for ages. 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30