The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the Great News 2 About which they have been differing? 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 And We made the night to be a covering, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And dense gardens. 16 Verily the Day of Decision is a time appointed. 17 On that day the trumpet will be sounded and you will come (to Us) in huge groups. 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 For the exorbitant a receptacle. 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 , A fitting reward. 26 Indeed they had no fear of the account. 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30