The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ Concerning what are they disputing? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 made sleep for you to rest, 9 and We made the night a mantle, 10 and We made the day for a livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And We made a shining lamp, 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 The Day of Judgment will certainly be the final appointment. 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates, 19 and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. 20 Verily the Hell is an ambuscade: 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 for the rebellious ones and they will live therein for ages. 23 They will not taste therein cool or any drink. 24 except boiling water and pus, 25 for a suitable recompense. 26 for they never expected to be called to account, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 [And so We shall say:] "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" 30