The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great news - 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Nay! 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 raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you), 9 and made the night a covering, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30