The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 About the great event, 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 And We have made the night a covering. 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 a fitting requital, 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 And rejected Our signs as lies. 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30