An-Naba
Translation: Pickthall
Whereof do they question one another? 78:1
(It is) of the awful tidings, 78:2
Concerning which they are in disagreement. 78:3
Nay, but they will come to know! 78:4
Nay, again, but they will come to know! 78:5
Have We not made the earth an expanse, 78:6
And the high hills bulwarks? 78:7
And We have created you in pairs, 78:8
And have appointed your sleep for repose, 78:9
And have appointed the night as a cloak, 78:10
And have appointed the day for livelihood. 78:11
And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 78:12
And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 78:13
And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 78:14
Thereby to produce grain and plant, 78:15
And gardens of thick foliage. 78:16
Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 78:17
A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 78:18
And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 78:19
And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 78:20
Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 78:21
A home for the rebellious. 78:22
They will abide therein for ages. 78:23
Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 78:24
Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 78:25
Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 78:26
For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 78:27
They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 78:28
Everything have We recorded in a Book. 78:29
So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 78:30
Lo! for the duteous is achievement - 78:31
Gardens enclosed and vineyards, 78:32
And voluptuous women of equal age; 78:33
And a full cup. 78:34
There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying - 78:35
Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment - 78:36
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse. 78:37
On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right. 78:38
That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord. 78:39
Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: "Would that I were dust!" 78:40