The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 Is it about the awesome tiding 2 About which they differ? 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 and created you in pairs (as men and women), 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 And made the night as clothing 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And We have built above you seven strong ones, 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 14 so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants, 15 And gardens of luxurious growth? 16 Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; 18 and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 a meet requital [for their sins]! 26 They did not expect such a Judgment 27 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 28 but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30