The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What do they question each other about! 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 and the night as a cover, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 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 insolent a resort, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Except boiling water and benumbing cold: 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 But they belied Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, and that which Our Prophet (Peace be upon him) brought) completely. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30