The News (Al-Naba')
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ What are they asking each other about? 1 About the great tidings! 2 About which they have been differing? 3 By no means! anon they shall know. 4 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know! 5 HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you,] 6 And the high hills bulwarks? 7 And We created you in pairs 8 And made sleep for you to rest, 9 and made the night [its] cloak 10 And have made the day for livelihood. 11 We raised over you several secure (skies), 12 And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. 13 and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading 14 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations, 15 and gardens luxuriant. 16 Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. 17 On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves, 18 And the heaven will be opened – it therefore becomes like gates. 19 The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. 20 Surely hell lies in wait, 21 a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right! 22 therein to tarry for ages, 23 Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink 24 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold, 25 a befitting recompense for their deeds. 26 Surely they feared not the account, 27 and they cried loud lies to Our signs; 28 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 29 So taste (the fruit of your deeds). We shall only increase your torment. 30