Al Nabaa

Pickthall

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

Yusuf Ali

1 Concerning what are they disputing?

Pickthall

2 (It is) of the awful tidings,

Yusuf Ali

2 Concerning the Great News,

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3 Concerning which they are in disagreement.

Yusuf Ali

3 About which they cannot agree.

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4 Nay, but they will come to know!

Yusuf Ali

4 Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!

Pickthall

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

Yusuf Ali

5 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know!

Pickthall

6 Have We not made the earth an expanse,

Yusuf Ali

6 Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse,

Pickthall

7 And the high hills bulwarks ?

Yusuf Ali

7 And the mountains as pegs?

Pickthall

8 And We have created you in pairs,

Yusuf Ali

8 And (have We not) created you in pairs,

Pickthall

9 And have appointed your sleep for repose,

Yusuf Ali

9 And made your sleep for rest,

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10 And have appointed the night as a cloak,

Yusuf Ali

10 And made the night as a covering,

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11 And have appointed the day for livelihood.

Yusuf Ali

11 And made the day as a means of subsistence?

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

Yusuf Ali

12 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments,

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13 And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

Yusuf Ali

13 And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour?

Pickthall

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

Yusuf Ali

14 And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance,

Pickthall

15 Thereby to produce grain and plant,

Yusuf Ali

15 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables,

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16 And gardens of thick foliage.

Yusuf Ali

16 And gardens of luxurious growth?

Pickthall

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

Yusuf Ali

17 Verily the Day of Sorting out is a thing appointed,

Pickthall

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

Yusuf Ali

18 The Day that the Trumpet shall be sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds;

Pickthall

19 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

Yusuf Ali

19 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors,

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

Yusuf Ali

20 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage.

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21 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

Yusuf Ali

21 Truly Hell is as a place of ambush,

Pickthall

22 A home for the rebellious.

Yusuf Ali

22 For the transgressors a place of destination:

Pickthall

23 They will abide therein for ages.

Yusuf Ali

23 They will dwell therein for ages.

Pickthall

24 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

Yusuf Ali

24 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink,

Pickthall

25 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

Yusuf Ali

25 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold,

Pickthall

26 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

Yusuf Ali

26 A fitting recompense (for them).

Pickthall

27 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

Yusuf Ali

27 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds),

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28 They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

Yusuf Ali

28 But they (impudently) treated Our Signs as false.

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29 Everything have We recorded in a Book.

Yusuf Ali

29 And all things have We preserved on record.

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

Yusuf Ali

30 "So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment."

Pickthall

31 Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

Yusuf Ali

31 Verily for the Righteous there will be a fulfilment of (the heart's) desires;

Pickthall

32 Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

Yusuf Ali

32 Gardens enclosed, and grapevines;

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33 And maidens for companions,

Yusuf Ali

33 And voluptuous women of equal age;

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34 And a full cup.

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34 And a cup full (to the brim).

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35 There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

Yusuf Ali

35 No vanity shall they hear therein, nor Untruth: -

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36 Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -

Yusuf Ali

36 Recompense from thy Lord, a gift, (amply) sufficient,

Pickthall

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

Yusuf Ali

37 (From) the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all between, (Allah) Most Gracious: None shall have power to argue with Him.

Pickthall

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.

Yusuf Ali

38 The Day that the Spirit and the angels will stand forth in ranks, none shall speak except any who is permitted by (Allah) Most Gracious, and He will say what is right.

Pickthall

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

Yusuf Ali

39 That Day will be the sure Reality: Therefore, whoso will, let him take a (straight) return to his Lord!

Pickthall

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!"

Yusuf Ali

40 Verily, We have warned you of a Penalty near, the Day when man will see (the deeds) which his hands have sent forth, and the Unbeliever will say, "Woe unto me! Would that I were (metre) dust!"