The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and We appointed your sleep for a rest; 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day for earning a livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings, 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30