The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 whereon they are at variance. 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 And We have set therein lamps glowing. 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 In order to produce grain and plants with it. 15 And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. 16 Lo! 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 heaven is opened and will become gateways 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges. 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30