The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 About the great news - 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 No! They are going to know. 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 [So We shall say], "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30