The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 The rebels' abode, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 and roundly denied 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