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English - Chapter 78 - An-Naba
Translation by Muhammad Asad — Permalink
Verse 1 — Surah An-Naba 78:1
ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another
Verse 2 — Surah An-Naba 78:2
About the awesome tiding [of resurrection]
Verse 3 — Surah An-Naba 78:3
on which they [so utterly] disagree
Verse 4 — Surah An-Naba 78:4
Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]
Verse 5 — Surah An-Naba 78:5
And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand
Verse 6 — Surah An-Naba 78:6
HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you]
Verse 7 — Surah An-Naba 78:7
and the mountains [its] pegs
Verse 8 — Surah An-Naba 78:8
And We have created you in pairs
Verse 9 — Surah An-Naba 78:9
and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death
Verse 10 — Surah An-Naba 78:10
and made the night [its] cloak
Verse 11 — Surah An-Naba 78:11
and made the day [a symbol of] life
Verse 12 — Surah An-Naba 78:12
And We have built above you seven firmaments
Verse 13 — Surah An-Naba 78:13
and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour
Verse 14 — Surah An-Naba 78:14
And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance
Verse 15 — Surah An-Naba 78:15
so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs
Verse 16 — Surah An-Naba 78:16
and gardens dense with follage
Verse 17 — Surah An-Naba 78:17
VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time
Verse 18 — Surah An-Naba 78:18
the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes
Verse 19 — Surah An-Naba 78:19
and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates
Verse 20 — Surah An-Naba 78:20
and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage
Verse 21 — Surah An-Naba 78:21
[On that Day,] verily, hell will lie in wait [for those who deny the truth] –
Verse 22 — Surah An-Naba 78:22
a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right
Verse 23 — Surah An-Naba 78:23
In it shall they remain for a long time
Verse 24 — Surah An-Naba 78:24
Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink –
Verse 25 — Surah An-Naba 78:25
only burning despair and ice-cold darkness
Verse 26 — Surah An-Naba 78:26
a meet requital [for their sins]
Verse 27 — Surah An-Naba 78:27
Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account
Verse 28 — Surah An-Naba 78:28
having given the lie to Our messages one and all
Verse 29 — Surah An-Naba 78:29
but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did]
Verse 30 — Surah An-Naba 78:30
[And so We shall say:] "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering
Verse 31 — Surah An-Naba 78:31
[But,] verily for the God-conscious there is supreme fulfilment in store
Verse 32 — Surah An-Naba 78:32
luxuriant gardens and vinyards
Verse 33 — Surah An-Naba 78:33
and splendid companions well matched
Verse 34 — Surah An-Naba 78:34
and a cup [of happiness] overflowing
Verse 35 — Surah An-Naba 78:35
No empty talk will they hear in that [paradise], nor any lie
Verse 36 — Surah An-Naba 78:36
[All this will be] a reward from thy Sustainer, a gift in accordance with [His Own] reckoning –
Verse 37 — Surah An-Naba 78:37
[a reward from] the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, the Most Gracious! [And] none shall have it in their power to raise their voices unto Him
Verse 38 — Surah An-Naba 78:38
on the Day when all [human] souls and all the angels will stand up in ranks: none will speak but he to whom the Most Gracious will have given leave; and [everyone] will say [only] what is right
Verse 39 — Surah An-Naba 78:39
That will be the Day of Ultimate Truth: whoever wills, then, let him take the path that leads towards his Sustainer
Verse 40 — Surah An-Naba 78:40
Verily, We have warned you of suffering near at hand - [suffering] on the Day when man shall [clearly] see what his hands have sent ahead, and when he who has denied the truth shall say, "Oh, would that I were mere dust