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English - Chapter 78 - An-Naba

Translation by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah An-Naba 78:1

Whereof do they question one another

Verse 2 — Surah An-Naba 78:2

(It is) of the awful tidings

Verse 3 — Surah An-Naba 78:3

Concerning which they are in disagreement

Verse 4 — Surah An-Naba 78:4

Nay, but they will come to know

Verse 5 — Surah An-Naba 78:5

Nay, again, but they will come to know

Verse 6 — Surah An-Naba 78:6

Have We not made the earth an expanse

Verse 7 — Surah An-Naba 78:7

And the high hills bulwarks

Verse 8 — Surah An-Naba 78:8

And We have created you in pairs

Verse 9 — Surah An-Naba 78:9

And have appointed your sleep for repose

Verse 10 — Surah An-Naba 78:10

And have appointed the night as a cloak

Verse 11 — Surah An-Naba 78:11

And have appointed the day for livelihood

Verse 12 — Surah An-Naba 78:12

And We have built above you seven strong (heavens)

Verse 13 — Surah An-Naba 78:13

And have appointed a dazzling lamp

Verse 14 — Surah An-Naba 78:14

And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water

Verse 15 — Surah An-Naba 78:15

Thereby to produce grain and plant

Verse 16 — Surah An-Naba 78:16

And gardens of thick foliage

Verse 17 — Surah An-Naba 78:17

Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time

Verse 18 — Surah An-Naba 78:18

A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes

Verse 19 — Surah An-Naba 78:19

And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates

Verse 20 — Surah An-Naba 78:20

And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage

Verse 21 — Surah An-Naba 78:21

Lo! hell lurketh in ambush

Verse 22 — Surah An-Naba 78:22

A home for the rebellious

Verse 23 — Surah An-Naba 78:23

They will abide therein for ages

Verse 24 — Surah An-Naba 78:24

Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

Verse 25 — Surah An-Naba 78:25

Save boiling water and a paralysing cold

Verse 26 — Surah An-Naba 78:26

Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds)

Verse 27 — Surah An-Naba 78:27

For lo! they looked not for a reckoning

Verse 28 — Surah An-Naba 78:28

They called Our revelations false with strong denial

Verse 29 — Surah An-Naba 78:29

Everything have We recorded in a Book

Verse 30 — Surah An-Naba 78:30

So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment

Verse 31 — Surah An-Naba 78:31

Lo! for the duteous is achievement

Verse 32 — Surah An-Naba 78:32

Gardens enclosed and vineyards

Verse 33 — Surah An-Naba 78:33

And voluptuous women of equal age

Verse 34 — Surah An-Naba 78:34

Verse 35 — Surah An-Naba 78:35

There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying

Verse 36 — Surah An-Naba 78:36

Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment

Verse 37 — Surah An-Naba 78:37

Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse

Verse 38 — Surah An-Naba 78:38

On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right

Verse 39 — Surah An-Naba 78:39

That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord

Verse 40 — Surah An-Naba 78:40

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