78 The News -An-Naba'

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful

[78.1] What do they question each other about!

[78.2] About the Great News

[78.3] whereupon they are at variance?

[78.4] Indeed, they shall know!

[78.5] Again, indeed, they shall know!

[78.6] Have We not made the earth as a cradle

[78.7] and the mountains as pegs?

[78.8] And We created you in pairs,

[78.9] and We made your sleep a rest,

[78.10] and We made the night a mantle,

[78.11] and We made the day for a livelihood.

[78.12] And We built above you seven strong ones,

[78.13] and placed in them a blazing lamp

[78.14] and have sent down from the clouds, pouring rain

[78.15] that We may bring forth with it grain, plants

[78.16] and luxuriant gardens.

[78.17] Indeed, the Day of Decision is an appointed time,

[78.18] the Day that the Horn is blown, and you shall come in crowds

[78.19] and heaven is opened, having gates,

[78.20] and the mountains move, and vaporize.

[78.21] Indeed, Gehenna (Hell) has become an ambush,

[78.22] a return for the insolent,

[78.23] there, they shall live for ages,

[78.24] tasting neither coolness nor any drink

[78.25] except boiling water and pus

[78.26] for a suitable recompense.

[78.27] Indeed, they did not hope for a Reckoning,

[78.28] and they absolutely belied Our verses,

[78.29] and everything We have numbered in a Book.

[78.30] 'Taste! We shall not increase you except in punishment! '

[78.31] But, for the cautious a place of prosperity,

[78.32] and gardens and vineyards,

[78.33] curvaceous (virgins), of equal age

[78.34] and an overflowing cup.

[78.35] There, they shall neither hear idle talk, nor yet any falsehood,

[78.36] a recompense from your Lord, a gift, a reckoning,

[78.37] the Lord of the heavens and earth, and all that is between them, the Merciful, of whom they are unable to speak.

[78.38] On that Day, when the Spirit (Gabriel) and the angels stand in ranks they shall not speak, except he to whom the Merciful has given permission, and says what is right.

[78.39] That is the Day, the truth, so whosoever wills takes a way to his Lord.

[78.40] Indeed, We have forewarned you of an imminent punishment, the Day when the person will look upon his works and the unbelievers will say: 'Would that I were dust! '