The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Verily, they shall soon (come to) know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 However, We have recorded everything in a book. 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30