The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ What are they questioning each other about? 1 They quarrel about the great news 2 on which they [so utterly] disagree. 3 No indeed; they shall soon know! 4 Again, indeed, they shall know! 5 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 6 and the mountains as pegs? 7 And We created you in pairs, 8 and made your sleep a means of repose, 9 The night a covering, 10 and the day as time for you to make a living? 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour. 13 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 And gardens of entwined growth. 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 and heaven is opened, and become gates, 19 and the mountains move, and vaporize. 20 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush, 21 a return for the insolent, 22 In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 23 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink, 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 as a fitting recompense for their deeds. 26 They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, 27 having given the lie to Our messages one and all: 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 Taste therefore. We shall not increase you in aught but torment. 30