The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great news - 2 whereupon they are at variance? 3 Nay, but they will come to know! 4 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know. 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse. 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And (have We not) created you in pairs, 8 And made your sleep for rest, 9 And made the night as a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments, 12 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour? 13 and sent down heavy rains from the clouds 14 so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs, 15 And dense gardens. 16 Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time. 17 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds; 18 and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates, 19 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. 20 Indeed hell is lying in ambush. 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 there, they shall live for ages, 23 and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink 24 Save scalding water and corruption. 25 Recompense fitted! 26 Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account, 27 And they denied Our signs to the extreme. 28 And everything We have recorded in a book. 29 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment' 30