The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Again, by no means! anon they shall know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 and raised the mountains like supporting poles? 7 And We have created you in pairs; 8 And made your sleep [a means for] rest 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And made the day as a means of subsistence? 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 And We have sent down from the rain-clouds water plenteous. 14 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 15 And dense gardens. 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And We have recorded everything in a book, 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30