The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 About the great event, 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed 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 the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 therein they shall abide for ages, 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30