The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 (Is it) of the great announcement 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 No! They are going 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 high hills bulwarks? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 a fitting requital, 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 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