The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 About which they differ? 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 that We may bring forth with it grain, plants 15 And dense gardens. 16 Verily, 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 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30