Chapter 78, 40 verses
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عم يتساءلون
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Whereof do they question one another ?
About what are they asking one another?
عن النبإ العظيم
(It is) of the awful tidings,
About the great news -
الذي هم فيه مختلفون
Concerning which they are in disagreement.
That over which they are in disagreement.
كلا سيعلمون
Nay, but they will come to know!
No! They are going to know.
ثم كلا سيعلمون
Nay, again, but they will come to know!
Then, no! They are going to know.
ألم نجعل الأرض مهادا
Have We not made the earth an expanse,
Have We not made the earth a resting place?
والجبال أوتادا
And the high hills bulwarks ?
And the mountains as stakes?
وخلقناكم أزواجا
And We have created you in pairs,
And We created you in pairs
وجعلنا نومكم سباتا
And have appointed your sleep for repose,
And made your sleep [a means for] rest
وجعلنا الليل لباسا
And have appointed the night as a cloak,
And made the night as clothing
وجعلنا النهار معاشا
And have appointed the day for livelihood.
And made the day for livelihood
وبنينا فوقكم سبعا شدادا
And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),
And constructed above you seven strong [heavens]
وجعلنا سراجا وهاجا
And have appointed a dazzling lamp,
And made [therein] a burning lamp
وأنزلنا من المعصرات ماء ثجاجا
And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water
لنخرج به حبا ونباتا
Thereby to produce grain and plant,
That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation
وجنات ألفافا
And gardens of thick foliage.
And gardens of entwined growth.
إن يوم الفصل كان ميقاتا
Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,
Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time -
يوم ينفخ في الصور فتأتون أفواجا
A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,
The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes
وفتحت السماء فكانت أبوابا
And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,
And the heaven is opened and will become gateways
وسيرت الجبال فكانت سرابا
And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage.
إن جهنم كانت مرصادا
Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait
للطاغين مآبا
A home for the rebellious.
For the transgressors, a place of return,
لابثين فيها أحقابا
They will abide therein for ages.
In which they will remain for ages [unending].
لا يذوقون فيها بردا ولا شرابا
Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink
They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink
إلا حميما وغساقا
Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -
جزاء وفاقا
Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).
An appropriate recompense.
إنهم كانوا لا يرجون حسابا
For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;
Indeed, they were not expecting an account
وكذبوا بآياتنا كذابا
They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.
وكل شيء أحصيناه كتابا
Everything have We recorded in a Book.
But all things We have enumerated in writing.
فذوقوا فلن نزيدكم إلا عذابا
So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
"So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment."
إن للمتقين مفازا
Lo! for the duteous is achievement -
Indeed, for the righteous is attainment -
حدائق وأعنابا
Gardens enclosed and vineyards,
Gardens and grapevines
وكواعب أترابا
And maidens for companions,
And full - breasted [companions] of equal age
وكأسا دهاقا
And a full cup.
And a full cup.
لا يسمعون فيها لغوا ولا كذابا
There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -
No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood -
جزاء من ربك عطاء حسابا
Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
[As] reward from your Lord, [a generous] gift [made due by] account,
رب السماوات والأرض وما بينهما الرحمن ۖ لا يملكون منه خطابا
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
[From] the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the Most Merciful. They possess not from Him [authority for] speech.
يوم يقوم الروح والملائكة صفا ۖ لا يتكلمون إلا من أذن له الرحمن وقال صوابا
On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.
The Day that the Spirit and the angels will stand in rows, they will not speak except for one whom the Most Merciful permits, and he will say what is correct.
ذلك اليوم الحق ۖ فمن شاء اتخذ إلى ربه مآبا
That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
That is the True Day; so he who wills may take to his Lord a [way of] return.
إنا أنذرناكم عذابا قريبا يوم ينظر المرء ما قدمت يداه ويقول الكافر يا ليتني كنت ترابا
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 will cry: "Would that I were dust!"
Indeed, We have warned you of a near punishment on the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth and the will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"