The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the Great News 2 About which they differ? 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30