The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30