Surah 78 · Meccan · 40 verses · juz 30
An-Naba سُورَةُ النَّبَإِ
The Announcement
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Whereof do they question one another?
78:1 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
(It is) of the awful tidings,
78:2 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Concerning which they are in disagreement.
78:3 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Nay, but they will come to know!
78:4 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Nay, again, but they will come to know!
78:5 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Have We not made the earth an expanse,
78:6 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And the high hills bulwarks?
78:7 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And We have created you in pairs,
78:8 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And have appointed your sleep for repose,
78:9 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And have appointed the night as a cloak,
78:10 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And have appointed the day for livelihood.
78:11 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),
78:12 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And have appointed a dazzling lamp,
78:13 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
78:14 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Thereby to produce grain and plant,
78:15 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And gardens of thick foliage.
78:16 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,
78:17 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,
78:18 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,
78:19 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
78:20 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
78:21 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
A home for the rebellious.
78:22 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
They will abide therein for ages.
78:23 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink
78:24 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
78:25 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).
78:26 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;
78:27 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
78:28 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Everything have We recorded in a Book.
78:29 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
78:30 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 582 · tafsir at quran.com
Lo! for the duteous is achievement -
78:31 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 583 · tafsir at quran.com
Gardens enclosed and vineyards,
78:32 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 583 · tafsir at quran.com
And voluptuous women of equal age;
78:33 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 583 · tafsir at quran.com
There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -
78:35 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 583 · tafsir at quran.com
Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
78:36 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 583 · tafsir at quran.com
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
78:37 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 583 · tafsir at quran.com
On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.
78:38 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 583 · tafsir at quran.com
That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
78:39 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 583 · tafsir at quran.com
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!"
78:40 · An-Naba · juz 30 · page 583 · tafsir at quran.com