The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the Great News 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 A home for the rebellious. 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30