The News (Al-Naba')
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? 1 About the great event, 2 That over which they are in disagreement. 3 Indeed, they shall know! 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not spread the earth like a bed, 6 The mountains tent-pins? 7 Have We not created you in pairs, 8 and We made your sleep a rest, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 And have kept a very bright lamp in it. 13 And then sent down hard rain from the water bearing clouds. 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 And dense gardens. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts, 18 And the heaven will have been opened, and it will have become doors. 19 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 The rebels' abode, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 Therefore taste it now – We shall not increase anything for you except the punishment. 30