The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 About the great tidings! 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 (What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality). 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as projections (thereon)? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 and the night as a cover, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs, 15 and gardens dense with foliage? 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 A place of resort for the inordinate, 22 Living therein for ages. 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30