The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great news - 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Nay! they shall soon come to know 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth). 28 but We have recorded everything in a Book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30