In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Whereof do they question one another ?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عم يتساءلون
Chapter 78, 40 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Whereof do they question one another ?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عم يتساءلون
(It is) of the awful tidings,
عن النبإ العظيم
Concerning which they are in disagreement.
الذي هم فيه مختلفون
Nay, but they will come to know!
كلا سيعلمون
Nay, again, but they will come to know!
ثم كلا سيعلمون
Have We not made the earth an expanse,
ألم نجعل الأرض مهادا
And the high hills bulwarks ?
والجبال أوتادا
And We have created you in pairs,
وخلقناكم أزواجا
And have appointed your sleep for repose,
وجعلنا نومكم سباتا
And have appointed the night as a cloak,
وجعلنا الليل لباسا
And have appointed the day for livelihood.
وجعلنا النهار معاشا
And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),
وبنينا فوقكم سبعا شدادا
And have appointed a dazzling lamp,
وجعلنا سراجا وهاجا
And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
وأنزلنا من المعصرات ماء ثجاجا
Thereby to produce grain and plant,
لنخرج به حبا ونباتا
And gardens of thick foliage.
وجنات ألفافا
Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,
إن يوم الفصل كان ميقاتا
A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,
يوم ينفخ في الصور فتأتون أفواجا
And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,
وفتحت السماء فكانت أبوابا
And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
وسيرت الجبال فكانت سرابا
Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
إن جهنم كانت مرصادا
A home for the rebellious.
للطاغين مآبا
They will abide therein for ages.
لابثين فيها أحقابا
Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink
لا يذوقون فيها بردا ولا شرابا
Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
إلا حميما وغساقا
Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).
جزاء وفاقا
For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;
إنهم كانوا لا يرجون حسابا
They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
وكذبوا بآياتنا كذابا
Everything have We recorded in a Book.
وكل شيء أحصيناه كتابا
So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
فذوقوا فلن نزيدكم إلا عذابا
Lo! for the duteous is achievement -
إن للمتقين مفازا
Gardens enclosed and vineyards,
حدائق وأعنابا
And maidens for companions,
وكواعب أترابا
And a full cup.
وكأسا دهاقا
There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -
لا يسمعون فيها لغوا ولا كذابا
Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
جزاء من ربك عطاء حسابا
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
رب السماوات والأرض وما بينهما الرحمن ۖ لا يملكون منه خطابا
On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.
يوم يقوم الروح والملائكة صفا ۖ لا يتكلمون إلا من أذن له الرحمن وقال صوابا
That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
ذلك اليوم الحق ۖ فمن شاء اتخذ إلى ربه مآبا
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!"
إنا أنذرناكم عذابا قريبا يوم ينظر المرء ما قدمت يداه ويقول الكافر يا ليتني كنت ترابا