The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth an even expanse? 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and made the day [a symbol of] life. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly, 14 So that We bring forth thereby corn and vegetation. 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 Requital corresponding. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 and they rejected outright Our signs; 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 So taste you (the results of your evil actions); no increase shall We give you, except in torment. 30