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English - Chapter 78 - An-Naba

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Verse 1 — Surah An-Naba 78:1

What are they questioning one another about

Verse 2 — Surah An-Naba 78:2

About an important announcement

Verse 3 — Surah An-Naba 78:3

which they are disagreeing over

Verse 4 — Surah An-Naba 78:4

However they soon will know

Verse 5 — Surah An-Naba 78:5

Then indeed they shall know

Verse 6 — Surah An-Naba 78:6

Have We not laid the earth out as a cradle

Verse 7 — Surah An-Naba 78:7

and [set] the mountains up as kingpins

Verse 8 — Surah An-Naba 78:8

We have created you in pairs

Verse 9 — Surah An-Naba 78:9

and granted your sleeping for repose

Verse 10 — Surah An-Naba 78:10

and granted night as a garment

Verse 11 — Surah An-Naba 78:11

and granted daytime for [you to earn your] living in

Verse 12 — Surah An-Naba 78:12

We have built seven firmaments above you

Verse 13 — Surah An-Naba 78:13

and set a blazing lamp there

Verse 14 — Surah An-Naba 78:14

We send down water in torrents wrung from rainclouds

Verse 15 — Surah An-Naba 78:15

so We may produce grain and plants with it

Verse 16 — Surah An-Naba 78:16

as well as luxuriant gardens

Verse 17 — Surah An-Naba 78:17

The day for Sorting has been appointed

Verse 18 — Surah An-Naba 78:18

the day when the Trumpet shall be blown so you will come in droves

Verse 19 — Surah An-Naba 78:19

and the sky will open up as if it had gates

Verse 20 — Surah An-Naba 78:20

and the mountains will travel along as if they were a mirage

Verse 21 — Surah An-Naba 78:21

Hell will lurk in ambush

Verse 22 — Surah An-Naba 78:22

to receive home the arrogant

Verse 23 — Surah An-Naba 78:23

who will linger there for ages

Verse 24 — Surah An-Naba 78:24

They will taste nothing cool in it nor any drink

Verse 25 — Surah An-Naba 78:25

except hot bathwater and slops

Verse 26 — Surah An-Naba 78:26

[which are such] a fitting compensation

Verse 27 — Surah An-Naba 78:27

since they have never expected [to meet with] any reckoning

Verse 28 — Surah An-Naba 78:28

and have wittingly rejected Our signs

Verse 29 — Surah An-Naba 78:29

Everything have We calculated in writing

Verse 30 — Surah An-Naba 78:30

So taste! Yet We shall only increase torment for you

Verse 31 — Surah An-Naba 78:31

The heedful will have their scene of triumph

Verse 32 — Surah An-Naba 78:32

with parks and vineyards

Verse 33 — Surah An-Naba 78:33

as well as buxom maidens their own age

Verse 34 — Surah An-Naba 78:34

and a brimming The cup

Verse 35 — Surah An-Naba 78:35

They will hear no idle talk nor any lying [gossip] there

Verse 36 — Surah An-Naba 78:36

as a compensation from your Lord, a calculated gift

Verse 37 — Surah An-Naba 78:37

Lord of Heaven and Earth as well as whatever is in between them, [He is] the Mercy-giving! They control no means of addressing Him

Verse 38 — Surah An-Naba 78:38

on the day when the Spirit and the angels will stand there in ranks, only someone the Mercy-giving grants permission to shall speak, and he will speak straight to the point

Verse 39 — Surah An-Naba 78:39

That day will seem too real! Anyone who wishes to, may adopt his recourse to [reach] the Lord

Verse 40 — Surah An-Naba 78:40

We have warned you (all) how punishment lies close-at-hand, on a day when any man will see whatever his own hands have sent on ahead, and the disbeliever will say: "If I were only dust