The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 About the Great News 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, they will come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 and the mountains [its] pegs? 7 We created you in pairs, 8 And We have made your sleep as a rest. 9 And made the night a cover. 10 And made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents 14 so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, 15 and gardens dense with follage. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink. 24 only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: 25 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 And all things We have recorded in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30