The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Concerning what are they disputing? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 And We made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We made above you seven strong ones, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and thick gardens grow? 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 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 25 A fitting recompense (for them). 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30