The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking (one another)? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 Requital corresponding. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30