The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 About the Great News 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30