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 that they are in utter disagreement? 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 and We appointed night for a garment, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Surely the Hell is an ambush, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 30