The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 About the Great News 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 , A fitting reward. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30