The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 About the Great News 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 So that We bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 and gardens dense with follage. 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 when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30