Al Nabaa

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

1 About what are they asking one another?

2 (It is) of the awful tidings,

2 About the great news -

3 Concerning which they are in disagreement.

3 That over which they are in disagreement.

4 Nay, but they will come to know!

4 No! They are going to know.

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

5 Then, no! They are going to know.

6 Have We not made the earth an expanse,

6 Have We not made the earth a resting place?

7 And the high hills bulwarks ?

7 And the mountains as stakes?

8 And We have created you in pairs,

8 And We created you in pairs

9 And have appointed your sleep for repose,

9 And made your sleep [a means for] rest

10 And have appointed the night as a cloak,

10 And made the night as clothing

11 And have appointed the day for livelihood.

11 And made the day for livelihood

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

12 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens]

13 And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

13 And made [therein] a burning lamp

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

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

15 Thereby to produce grain and plant,

15 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation

16 And gardens of thick foliage.

16 And gardens of entwined growth.

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

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

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

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

19 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

19 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways

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

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

21 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

21 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait

22 A home for the rebellious.

22 For the transgressors, a place of return,

23 They will abide therein for ages.

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

24 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

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

25 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

25 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -

26 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

26 An appropriate recompense.

27 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

27 Indeed, they were not expecting an account

28 They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

28 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.

29 Everything have We recorded in a Book.

29 But all things We have enumerated in writing.

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

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

31 Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

31 Indeed, for the righteous is attainment -

32 Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

32 Gardens and grapevines

33 And maidens for companions,

33 And full - breasted [companions] of equal age

34 And a full cup.

34 And a full cup.

35 There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

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

36 Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 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!"