The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the Great News 2 Regarding which they hold different views. 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And made [therein] a burning lamp 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 The destination of the rebellious. 22 In it shall they remain for a long time. 23 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 24 save boiling water and pus 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 Verily they were wont not to look for a reckoning. 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30