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Surah 78 · 40 ayat

An-Naba

The Announcement

النبإ

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

78:1

عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ

MeaningWhereof do they question one another?

78:2

عَنِ ٱلنَّبَإِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ

Meaning(It is) of the awful tidings,

78:3

ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ

MeaningConcerning which they are in disagreement.

78:4

كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ

MeaningNay, but they will come to know!

78:5

ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ

MeaningNay, again, but they will come to know!

78:6

أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِهَـٰدًا

MeaningHave We not made the earth an expanse,

78:7

وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا

MeaningAnd the high hills bulwarks?

78:8

وَخَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًا

MeaningAnd We have created you in pairs,

78:9

وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا

MeaningAnd have appointed your sleep for repose,

78:10

وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا

MeaningAnd have appointed the night as a cloak,

78:11

وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلنَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا

MeaningAnd have appointed the day for livelihood.

78:12

وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًا شِدَادًا

MeaningAnd We have built above you seven strong (heavens),

78:13

وَجَعَلْنَا سِرَاجًا وَهَّاجًا

MeaningAnd have appointed a dazzling lamp,

78:14

وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمُعْصِرَٰتِ مَآءً ثَجَّاجًا

MeaningAnd have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,

78:15

لِّنُخْرِجَ بِهِۦ حَبًّا وَنَبَاتًا

MeaningThereby to produce grain and plant,

78:16

وَجَنَّـٰتٍ أَلْفَافًا

MeaningAnd gardens of thick foliage.

78:17

إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَـٰتًا

MeaningLo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

78:18

يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَتَأْتُونَ أَفْوَاجًا

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

78:19

وَفُتِحَتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ أَبْوَٰبًا

MeaningAnd the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

78:20

وَسُيِّرَتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا

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

78:21

إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا

MeaningLo! hell lurketh in ambush,

78:22

لِّلطَّـٰغِينَ مَـَٔابًا

MeaningA home for the rebellious.

78:23

لَّـٰبِثِينَ فِيهَآ أَحْقَابًا

MeaningThey will abide therein for ages.

78:24

لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًا وَلَا شَرَابًا

MeaningTherein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

78:25

إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا

MeaningSave boiling water and a paralysing cold:

78:26

جَزَآءً وِفَاقًا

MeaningReward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

78:27

إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَرْجُونَ حِسَابًا

MeaningFor lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

78:28

وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا كِذَّابًا

MeaningThey called Our revelations false with strong denial.

78:29

وَكُلَّ شَىْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَـٰهُ كِتَـٰبًا

MeaningEverything have We recorded in a Book.

78:30

فَذُوقُوا۟ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا

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

78:31

إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا

MeaningLo! for the duteous is achievement –

78:32

حَدَآئِقَ وَأَعْنَـٰبًا

MeaningGardens enclosed and vineyards,

78:33

وَكَوَاعِبَ أَتْرَابًا

MeaningAnd voluptuous women of equal age;

78:34

وَكَأْسًا دِهَاقًا

MeaningAnd a full cup.

78:35

لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا وَلَا كِذَّٰبًا

MeaningThere hear they never vain discourse, nor lying –

78:36

جَزَآءً مِّن رَّبِّكَ عَطَآءً حِسَابًا

MeaningRequital from thy Lord – a gift in payment –

78:37

رَّبِّ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ۖ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِنْهُ خِطَابًا

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

78:38

يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلرُّوحُ وَٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ صَفًّا ۖ لَّا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنُ وَقَالَ صَوَابًا

MeaningOn the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.

78:39

ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۖ فَمَن شَآءَ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ مَـَٔابًا

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

78:40

إِنَّآ أَنذَرْنَـٰكُمْ عَذَابًا قَرِيبًا يَوْمَ يَنظُرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ ٱلْكَافِرُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ تُرَٰبًۢا

MeaningLo! 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!"

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Arabic source: Tanzil Quran Text 1.1. Verbatim Uthmani source text, used under CC BY 3.0. Check Tanzil for source updates.

Default English meaning: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930). The translation is presented separately from the Qur’an Arabic.

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