The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 About the great tidings! 2 concerning which they have disputes. 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a cradle 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 We created you in pairs, 8 and gave you repose in sleep, 9 And made the night as clothing 10 And We have made the day for seeking livelihood. 11 We have built above you seven mighty heavens, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water. 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Indeed the Day of Decision is a time fixed. 17 The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; 18 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Hell will lie in wait (for its prey). 21 For the transgressors, a place of return, 22 where they shall remain for ages, 23 Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink 24 save boiling water and wash of the wounds; 25 a fitting requital, 26 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds), 27 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 (They will be told), "Suffer, We shall only increase the torment for you". 30