The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 Of the mighty Announcement, 2 About which they are in disagreement. 3 No indeed; soon will they come to know; 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Did We not make the earth a bed? 6 And the mountains as pegs? 7 And We have created you in pairs. 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 and built above you seven strong firmaments, 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 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 gardens of entwined growth. 16 Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, 17 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 18 and heaven is opened, having gates, 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 a home for the transgressors, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 tasting neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 , A fitting reward. 26 Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning, 27 and they absolutely belied Our verses, 28 And everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement. 30