English translation: The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, Marmaduke Pickthall
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Surah 78 النبإ
40 Verses
Meccan
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
عَمَّ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ Verse 1
Whereof do they question one another?
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عَنِ النَّبَإِ الْعَظِيمِ Verse 2
(It is) of the awful tidings,
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الَّذِي هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ Verse 3
Concerning which they are in disagreement.
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كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ Verse 4
Nay, but they will come to know!
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ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ Verse 5
Nay, again, but they will come to know!
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أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ مِهَادًا Verse 6
Have We not made the earth an expanse,
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وَالْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا Verse 7
And the high hills bulwarks?
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وَخَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا Verse 8
And We have created you in pairs,
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وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا Verse 9
And have appointed your sleep for repose,
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وَجَعَلْنَا اللَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا Verse 10
And have appointed the night as a cloak,
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وَجَعَلْنَا النَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا Verse 11
And have appointed the day for livelihood.
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وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًا شِدَادًا Verse 12
And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),
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وَجَعَلْنَا سِرَاجًا وَهَّاجًا Verse 13
And have appointed a dazzling lamp,
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وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ الْمُعْصِرَاتِ مَاءً ثَجَّاجًا Verse 14
And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
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لِّنُخْرِجَ بِهِ حَبًّا وَنَبَاتًا Verse 15
Thereby to produce grain and plant,
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وَجَنَّاتٍ أَلْفَافًا Verse 16
And gardens of thick foliage.
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إِنَّ يَوْمَ الْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَاتًا Verse 17
Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,
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يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِي الصُّورِ فَتَأْتُونَ أَفْوَاجًا Verse 18
A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,
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وَفُتِحَتِ السَّمَاءُ فَكَانَتْ أَبْوَابًا Verse 19
And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,
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وَسُيِّرَتِ الْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا Verse 20
And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
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إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا Verse 21
Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
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لِّلطَّاغِينَ مَآبًا Verse 22
A home for the rebellious.
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لَّابِثِينَ فِيهَا أَحْقَابًا Verse 23
They will abide therein for ages.
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لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًا وَلَا شَرَابًا Verse 24
Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink
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إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا Verse 25
Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
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جَزَاءً وِفَاقًا Verse 26
Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).
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إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا لَا يَرْجُونَ حِسَابًا Verse 27
For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;
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وَكَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا كِذَّابًا Verse 28
They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
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وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَاهُ كِتَابًا Verse 29
Everything have We recorded in a Book.
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فَذُوقُوا فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا Verse 30
So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
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إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا Verse 31
Lo! for the duteous is achievement -
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حَدَائِقَ وَأَعْنَابًا Verse 32
Gardens enclosed and vineyards,
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وَكَوَاعِبَ أَتْرَابًا Verse 33
And voluptuous women of equal age;
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وَكَأْسًا دِهَاقًا Verse 34
And a full cup.
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لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا وَلَا كِذَّابًا Verse 35
There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -
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جَزَاءً مِّن رَّبِّكَ عَطَاءً حِسَابًا Verse 36
Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
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رَّبِّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا الرَّحْمَـٰنِ ۖ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِنْهُ خِطَابًا Verse 37
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
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يَوْمَ يَقُومُ الرُّوحُ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ صَفًّا ۖ لَّا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ الرَّحْمَـٰنُ وَقَالَ صَوَابًا Verse 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.
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ذَٰلِكَ الْيَوْمُ الْحَقُّ ۖ فَمَن شَاءَ اتَّخَذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِ مَآبًا Verse 39
That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
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إِنَّا أَنذَرْنَاكُمْ عَذَابًا قَرِيبًا يَوْمَ يَنظُرُ الْمَرْءُ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ الْكَافِرُ يَا لَيْتَنِي كُنتُ تُرَابًا Verse 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!"
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