The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the great news - 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 and made the night a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 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 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 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 Living therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 Recompense fitted! 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth). 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30