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