The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed, 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 [And 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