The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the Great News 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 But they will soon come to know. 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And it is We who created you in pairs. 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30