The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ About what are they asking one another? 1 About the great tidings! 2 About which they cannot agree. 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 12 and We have set therein a glowing lamp. 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 and gardens dense with foliage. 16 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed: 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; 19 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 Where they will remain for aeons, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30