The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What do they quarrel about? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Then, no! They are going to know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 made the night as a covering, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and placed in them a blazing lamp 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And gardens of thick growth. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 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 place of resort for the inordinate, 22 They will tarry therein for ages. 23 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 24 except boiling water and pus 25 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes). 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30