الـنبإ

1 About what are they asking one another?

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Whereof do they question one another ?

1 AAamma yatasaaloona

2 About the great news -

2 (It is) of the awful tidings,

2 AAani alnnabai alAAatheemi

3 That over which they are in disagreement.

3 Concerning which they are in disagreement.

3 Allathee hum feehi mukhtalifoona

4 No! They are going to know.

4 Nay, but they will come to know!

4 Kalla sayaAAlamoona

5 Then, no! They are going to know.

5 Nay, again, but they will come to know!

5 Thumma kalla sayaAAlamoona

6 Have We not made the earth a resting place?

6 Have We not made the earth an expanse,

6 Alam najAAali alarda mihadan

7 And the mountains as stakes?

7 And the high hills bulwarks ?

7 Waaljibala awtadan

8 And We created you in pairs

8 And We have created you in pairs,

8 Wakhalaqnakum azwajan

9 And made your sleep [a means for] rest

9 And have appointed your sleep for repose,

9 WajaAAalna nawmakum subatan

10 And made the night as clothing

10 And have appointed the night as a cloak,

10 WajaAAalna allayla libasan

11 And made the day for livelihood

11 And have appointed the day for livelihood.

11 WajaAAalna alnnahara maAAashan

12 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens]

12 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),

12 Wabanayna fawqakum sabAAan shidadan

13 And made [therein] a burning lamp

13 And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

13 WajaAAalna sirajan wahhajan

14 And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water

14 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,

14 Waanzalna mina almuAAsirati maan thajjajan

15 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation

15 Thereby to produce grain and plant,

15 Linukhrija bihi habban wanabatan

16 And gardens of entwined growth.

16 And gardens of thick foliage.

16 Wajannatin alfafan

17 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time -

17 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

17 Inna yawma alfasli kana meeqatan

18 The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes

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

18 Yawma yunfakhu fee alssoori fatatoona afwajan

19 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways

19 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

19 Wafutihati alssamao fakanat abwaban

20 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage.

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

20 Wasuyyirati aljibalu fakanat saraban

21 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait

21 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

21 Inna jahannama kanat mirsadan

22 For the transgressors, a place of return,

22 A home for the rebellious.

22 Lilttagheena maaban

23 In which they will remain for ages [unending].

23 They will abide therein for ages.

23 Labitheena feeha ahqaban

24 They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink

24 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

24 La yathooqoona feeha bardan wala sharaban

25 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -

25 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

25 Illa hameeman waghassaqan

26 An appropriate recompense.

26 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

26 Jazaan wifaqan

27 Indeed, they were not expecting an account

27 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

27 Innahum kanoo la yarjoona hisaban

28 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.

28 They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

28 Wakaththaboo biayatina kiththaban

29 But all things We have enumerated in writing.

29 Everything have We recorded in a Book.

29 Wakulla shayin ahsaynahu kitaban

30 "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment."

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

30 Fathooqoo falan nazeedakum illa AAathaban

31 Indeed, for the righteous is attainment -

31 Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

31 Inna lilmuttaqeena mafazan

32 Gardens and grapevines

32 Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

32 Hadaiqa waaAAnaban

33 And full - breasted [companions] of equal age

33 And maidens for companions,

33 WakawaAAiba atraban

34 And a full cup.

34 And a full cup.

34 Wakasan dihaqan

35 No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood -

35 There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

35 La yasmaAAoona feeha laghwan wala kiththaban

36 [As] reward from your Lord, [a generous] gift [made due by] account,

36 Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -

36 Jazaan min rabbika AAataan hisaban

37 [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.

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

37 Rabbi alssamawati waalardi wama baynahuma alrrahmani la yamlikoona minhu khitaban

38 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.

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.

38 Yawma yaqoomu alrroohu waalmalaikatu saffan la yatakallamoona illa man athina lahu alrrahmanu waqala sawaban

39 That is the True Day; so he who wills may take to his Lord a [way of] return.

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

39 Thalika alyawmu alhaqqu faman shaa ittakhatha ila rabbihi maaban

40 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 disbeliever will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"

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!"

40 Inna antharnakum AAathaban qareeban yawma yanthuru almaro ma qaddamat yadahu wayaqoolu alkafiru ya laytanee kuntu turaban