The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 and We appointed day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time. 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30