The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 No! They are going to know. 4 again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. 5 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And built seven strong roofs above you. 12 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 13 From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance, 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes; 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush, 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 And they belied Our revelations with strong belying. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30