The News (Al-Naba')
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ Whereof do they question one another? 1 Concerning the Great News, 2 Concerning which they differ. 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Again surely yes, they will soon come to know! 5 Have We not made the earth as a bed, 6 and fixed the mountains like pegs, 7 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.). 8 And have made your sleep as a thing for rest. 9 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 10 and made the day to seek livelihood, 11 And We built above you seven strong ones, 12 (the sun) as a shining torch 13 And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance, 14 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 15 and luxuriant gardens. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 It is a Day whereon the trumpet will be blown, and ye will come in multitudes. 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 20 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 21 for the insolent a resort, 22 They will dwell therein for ages. 23 They will not feel cold nor taste any drink 24 save boiling water and a stinking fluid -- 25 The reward to each is according to what he is. 26 Indeed, they were not expecting an account 27 and roundly denied Our Signs as false. 28 And We have kept recorded everything in a Book, accounted for. 29 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' 30