The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the great news - 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Verily, they shall soon (come to) know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And dense gardens. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 Requital corresponding. 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30