The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 About the Great News 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 But they will 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 wide expanse, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 And gardens thick with trees. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 And the mountains will have been removed away, and they will have become as mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 a return for the insolent, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 [And so We shall say:] "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30