The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and the night as a cover, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens of thick foliage. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30