Al Nabaa

1 About what are they asking one another?

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

2 About the great news -

2 (It is) of the awful tidings,

3 That over which they are in disagreement.

3 Concerning which they are in disagreement.

4 No! They are going to know.

4 Nay, but they will come to know!

5 Then, no! They are going to know.

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

6 Have We not made the earth a resting place?

6 Have We not made the earth an expanse,

7 And the mountains as stakes?

7 And the high hills bulwarks ?

8 And We created you in pairs

8 And We have created you in pairs,

9 And made your sleep [a means for] rest

9 And have appointed your sleep for repose,

10 And made the night as clothing

10 And have appointed the night as a cloak,

11 And made the day for livelihood

11 And have appointed the day for livelihood.

12 And constructed above you seven strong [heavens]

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

13 And made [therein] a burning lamp

13 And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

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

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

15 That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation

15 Thereby to produce grain and plant,

16 And gardens of entwined growth.

16 And gardens of thick foliage.

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

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

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,

19 And the heaven is opened and will become gateways

19 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

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.

21 Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait

21 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

22 For the transgressors, a place of return,

22 A home for the rebellious.

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

23 They will abide therein for ages.

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

24 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

25 Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -

25 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

26 An appropriate recompense.

26 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

27 Indeed, they were not expecting an account

27 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

28 And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.

28 They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

29 But all things We have enumerated in writing.

29 Everything have We recorded in a Book.

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.

31 Indeed, for the righteous is attainment -

31 Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

32 Gardens and grapevines

32 Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

33 And full - breasted [companions] of equal age

33 And maidens for companions,

34 And a full cup.

34 And a full cup.

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

35 There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

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

36 Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -

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.

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.

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.

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!"