Al Nabaa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. What are they asking (one another) about?

Shakir

1 Of what do they ask one another?

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

2 About the great news, (i.e. Islamic Monotheism, the Qur'an, which Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم brought and the Day of Resurrection)

Shakir

2 About the great event,

Pickthall

2 (It is) of the awful tidings,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

3 About which they are in disagreement.

Shakir

3 About which they differ?

Pickthall

3 Concerning which they are in disagreement.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

4 Nay, they will come to know!

Shakir

4 Nay! they shall soon come to know

Pickthall

4 Nay, but they will come to know!

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

5 Nay, again, they will come to know!

Shakir

5 Nay! Nay! they shall soon know.

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

6 Have We not made the earth as a bed,

Shakir

6 Have We not made the earth an even expanse?

Pickthall

6 Have We not made the earth an expanse,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

7 And the mountains as pegs?

Shakir

7 And the mountains as projections (thereon)?

Pickthall

7 And the high hills bulwarks ?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

8 And We have created you in pairs (male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.).

Shakir

8 And We created you in pairs,

Pickthall

8 And We have created you in pairs,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

9 And We have made your sleep as a thing for rest.

Shakir

9 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you),

Pickthall

9 And have appointed your sleep for repose,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

10 And We have made the night as a covering (through its darkness),

Shakir

10 And We made the night to be a covering,

Pickthall

10 And have appointed the night as a cloak,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

11 And We have made the day for livelihood.

Shakir

11 And We made the day for seeking livelihood.

Pickthall

11 And have appointed the day for livelihood.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

12 And We made above you seven strong ones,

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

13 And We have made (therein) a shining lamp (sun).

Shakir

13 And We made a shining lamp,

Pickthall

13 And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

14 And We have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water.

Shakir

14 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly,

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

15 That We may produce therewith corn and vegetations,

Shakir

15 That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs,

Pickthall

15 Thereby to produce grain and plant,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

16 And gardens of thick growth.

Shakir

16 And gardens dense and luxuriant.

Pickthall

16 And gardens of thick foliage.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

17 Verily, the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

Shakir

17 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed:

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

18 The Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds (groups after groups). [Tafsir At-Tabari]

Shakir

18 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts,

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

19 And the heaven shall be opened, and it will become as gates,

Shakir

19 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings,

Pickthall

19 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

20 And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage.

Shakir

20 And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance.

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

21 Truly, Hell is a place of ambush -

Shakir

21 Surely hell lies in wait,

Pickthall

21 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

22 A dwelling place for the Taghun (those who transgress the boundary limits set by Allah like polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, hyprocrites, sinners, criminals),

Shakir

22 A place of resort for the inordinate,

Pickthall

22 A home for the rebellious.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

23 They will abide therein for ages.

Shakir

23 Living therein for ages.

Pickthall

23 They will abide therein for ages.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

24 They shall not taste therein cool nor drink

Pickthall

24 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

25 Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges -

Shakir

25 But boiling and intensely cold water,

Pickthall

25 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

26 An exact recompense (according to their evil crimes).

Shakir

26 Requital corresponding.

Pickthall

26 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

27 For verily, they used not to look for a reckoning.

Shakir

27 Surely they feared not the account,

Pickthall

27 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

28 But they belied Our Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, and that which Our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم brought) completely.

Shakir

28 And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth).

Pickthall

28 They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

29 And all things We have recorded in a Book.

Shakir

29 And We have recorded everything in a book,

Pickthall

29 Everything have We recorded in a Book.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

30 So taste you (the results of your evil actions). No increase shall We give you, except in torment.

Shakir

30 So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement.

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

31 Verily, for the Muttaqun, there will be a success (Paradise);

Shakir

31 Surely for those who guard (against evil) is achievement,

Pickthall

31 Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

32 Gardens and vineyards,

Shakir

32 Gardens and vineyards,

Pickthall

32 Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

33 And young full-breasted (mature) maidens of equal age,

Shakir

33 And voluptuous women of equal age;

Pickthall

33 And maidens for companions,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

34 And a full cup (of wine).

Shakir

34 And a pure cup.

Pickthall

34 And a full cup.

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35 No Laghw (dirty, false, evil talk) shall they hear therein, nor lying;

Shakir

35 They shall not hear therein any vain words nor lying.

Pickthall

35 There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

36 A reward from your Lord, an ample calculated gift (according to the best of their good deeds),

Shakir

36 A reward from your Lord, a gift according to a reckoning:

Pickthall

36 Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

37 (From) the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and whatsoever is in between them, the Most Gracious, with Whom they cannot dare to speak (on the Day of Resurrection except by His Leave).

Shakir

37 The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, the Beneficent Allah, they shall not be able to address Him.

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

38 The Day that Ar-Ruh [Jibril (Gabriel) or another angel] and the angels will stand forth in rows, they will not speak except him whom the Most Gracious (Allah) allows, and he will speak what is right.

Shakir

38 The day on which the spirit and the angels shall stand in ranks; they shall not speak except he whom the Beneficent Allah permits and who speaks the right thing.

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.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

39 That is (without doubt) the True Day. So, whosoever wills, let him seek a place with (or a way to) His Lord (by obeying Him in this worldly life)!

Shakir

39 That is the sure day, so whoever desires may take refuge with his Lord.

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

40 Verily, We have warned you of a near torment - the Day when man will see that (the deeds) which his hands have sent forth, and the disbeliever will say: "Woe to me! Would that I were dust!"

Shakir

40 Surely We have warned you of a chastisement near at hand: the day when man shall see what his two hands have sent before, and the unbeliever shall say: O! would that I were dust!

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!"