The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the Great News 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And dense gardens. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 [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