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78. An-Naba - The News
| 1 | OF WHAT ARE they asking one another? |
| 2 | (Is it) of the great announcement |
| 3 | About which they have been differing? |
| 4 | Indeed they will come to know soon; |
| 5 | They will indeed come to know soon. |
| 6 | Did We not make the earth a spreading, |
| 7 | The mountains tent-pins? |
| 8 | We created you in pairs, |
| 9 | And made sleep for you to rest, |
| 10 | The night a covering, |
| 11 | And the day for seeking livelihood. |
| 12 | We raised over you several secure (skies), |
| 13 | And placed a lamp therein brightly burning. |
| 14 | And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents |
| 15 | That We may produce from it grain and vegetation, |
| 16 | And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs. |
| 17 | Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement. |
| 18 | The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes; |
| 19 | The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors, |
| 20 | The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage. |
| 21 | Certainly Hell lies in wait, |
| 22 | The rebels' abode, |
| 23 | Where they will remain for aeons, |
| 24 | Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink |
| 25 | Except boiling water and benumbing cold: |
| 26 | , A fitting reward. |
| 27 | They were those who did not expect a reckoning, |
| 28 | And rejected Our signs as lies. |
| 29 | We have kept account of everything in a book. |
| 30 | So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment, |
| 31 | As for those who preserve themselves from evil and follow the straight path, there is attainment for them: |
| 32 | Orchards and vineyards, |
| 33 | And graceful maidens of the same age, |
| 34 | And flasks full and flowing. |
| 35 | They will hear no blasphemies there or disavowals: |
| 36 | A recompense from your Lord, a sufficient gift, |
| 37 | The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all that lies between them, most benevolent, to whom none may dare address a word. |
| 38 | The day the Spirit takes its stand, with the angels ranged in rows. None will speak except who is permitted by Ar-Rahman and says what is right. |
| 39 | That day is certain. So whosoever likes may prepare a way to his Lord. |
| 40 | We have indeed warned you of a calamity near at hand, a day when man will see what he had sent (of his deeds) ahead, and the unbeliever will say: "Woe alas. Ah would that I were dust!" |