The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they ask one another? 1 About the Great News 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 Surely yes, they will soon come to know! 4 They will indeed come to know soon. 5 Have We not made the earth as a place to rest 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven firmaments, 12 And have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun). 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time: 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, 19 The mountains will be driven away and become like mirages. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 An appropriate recompense. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 But all things We have enumerated in writing. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30