The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ Concerning what are they disputing? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 a return for the insolent, 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30