The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 Of the mighty tiding 2 concerning which they are in disagreement! 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep a rest. 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a resort for the rebellious; 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30