The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Of what do they question one another? 1 About the Great News 2 About which they differ? 3 Indeed they will come to know soon; 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know! 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the mountains as stakes? 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 and sent down abundant water from the clouds 14 That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, 15 And gardens dense and luxuriant. 16 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 17 the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. 20 Certainly Hell lies in wait, 21 For the transgressors a place of destination: 22 Living therein for ages. 23 They will neither taste anything cool in it, nor anything to drink. 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 Recompense fitted! 26 They were those who did not expect a reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 And all things have We preserved on record. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30