The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another? 1 About the great news - 2 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 3 Nay, they will come to know! 4 Yes, indeed, before long they will learn all about it. 5 Did We not make the earth a spreading, 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 and made the night a covering, 10 And made the day for livelihood 11 And We have builded over you seven strong heavens. 12 and We appointed a blazing lamp 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 to make the seeds, plants, 15 and thick gardens grow? 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The day when the Trumpet will be blown – you will therefore come forth in multitudes. 18 The heavens will have openings like doors. 19 And the mountains will be moved – they will therefore become like mirages. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 They will abide therein for ages, 23 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink 24 But boiling and intensely cold water, 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 28 We have kept account of everything in a book. 29 So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, 30