The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Surely, they will soon find out the truth! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 And have made the night as a covering (through its darkness), 10 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 11 Have We not made seven strong heavens above you, 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups); 18 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 a fitting requital, 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30