The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 So that We bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink 24 Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell. 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30