The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 About the Great News 2 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 It will be a place of return 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 a fitting requital, 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment." 30