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