The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30