The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the great news - 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Verily, they shall soon (come to) know! 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And We have made your sleep as a rest. 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Surely, Hell lies in wait, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a fitting requital, 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30