The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what ask they? 1 About the Great News 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]! 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 The night a covering, 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 and everything We have numbered in a Book. 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30