The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 It will be a place of return 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30