78. An-Naba

1 Whereof do they question one another

2 (It is) of the awful tidings

3 Concerning which they are in disagreement

4 Nay, but they will come to know

5 Nay, again, but they will come to know

6 Have We not made the earth an expanse

7 And the high hills bulwarks

8 And We have created you in pairs

9 And have appointed your sleep for repose

10 And have appointed the night as a cloak

11 And have appointed the day for livelihood

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

13 And have appointed a dazzling lamp

14 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water

15 Thereby to produce grain and plant

16 And gardens of thick foliage

17 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time

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

19 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates

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

21 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush

22 A home for the rebellious

23 They will abide therein for ages

24 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

25 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold

26 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds)

27 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning

28 They called Our revelations false with strong denial

29 Everything have We recorded in a Book

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

31 Lo! for the duteous is achievement

32 Gardens enclosed and vineyards

33 And voluptuous women of equal age

34 And a full cup

35 There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying

36 Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment

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

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 whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord

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