78. An-Naba

78:1

عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ ﴿١﴾

ʿamma yatasāʾalūn

Whereof do they question one another?

78:2

عَنِ ٱلنَّبَإِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ ﴿٢﴾

ʿani an-nabaʾi al-ʿaẓīm

(It is) of the awful tidings,

78:3

ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ ﴿٣﴾

Alladhī hum fīhi mukhtalifūn

Concerning which they are in disagreement.

78:4

كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٤﴾

Kallā sayaʿlamūn

Nay, but they will come to know!

78:5

ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٥﴾

Thumma kallā sayaʿlamūn

Nay, again, but they will come to know!

78:6

أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِهَـٰدًا ﴿٦﴾

Alam najʿali al-arḍa mihādā

Have We not made the earth an expanse,

78:7

وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا ﴿٧﴾

Wal-jibāla awtādā

And the high hills bulwarks?

78:8

وَخَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًا ﴿٨﴾

Wakhalaqnākum azwājā

And We have created you in pairs,

78:9

وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا ﴿٩﴾

Wajaʿalnā nawmakum subātā

And have appointed your sleep for repose,

78:10

وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا ﴿١٠﴾

Wajaʿalnā allayla libāsā

And have appointed the night as a cloak,

78:11

وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلنَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا ﴿١١﴾

Wajaʿalnā an-nahāra maʿāshā

And have appointed the day for livelihood.

78:12

وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًا شِدَادًا ﴿١٢﴾

Wabanaynā fawqakum sabʿan shidādā

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

78:13

وَجَعَلْنَا سِرَاجًا وَهَّاجًا ﴿١٣﴾

Wajaʿalnā sirājan wahhājā

And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

78:14

وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمُعْصِرَٰتِ مَآءً ثَجَّاجًا ﴿١٤﴾

Waʾanzalnā mina al-muʿṣirāti māʾan thajjājā

And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,

78:15

لِّنُخْرِجَ بِهِۦ حَبًّا وَنَبَاتًا ﴿١٥﴾

Linukhrija bihi ḥabban wanabātā

Thereby to produce grain and plant,

78:16

وَجَنَّـٰتٍ أَلْفَافًا ﴿١٦﴾

Wajannātin alfāfā

And gardens of thick foliage.

78:17

إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَـٰتًا ﴿١٧﴾

Inna yawma al-faṣli kāna mīqātā

Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

78:18

يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَتَأْتُونَ أَفْوَاجًا ﴿١٨﴾

Yawma yunfakhu fī aṣ-ṣūri fataʾtūna afwājā

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

78:19

وَفُتِحَتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ أَبْوَٰبًا ﴿١٩﴾

Wafutiḥati as-samāʾu fakānat abwābā

And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

78:20

وَسُيِّرَتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا ﴿٢٠﴾

Wasuyyirati al-jibālu fakānat sarābā

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

78:21

إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا ﴿٢١﴾

Inna jahannama kānat mirṣādā

Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

78:22

لِّلطَّـٰغِينَ مَـَٔابًا ﴿٢٢﴾

Lilṭṭāghīna maʾābā

A home for the rebellious.

78:23

لَّـٰبِثِينَ فِيهَآ أَحْقَابًا ﴿٢٣﴾

Lābithīna fīhā aḥqābā

They will abide therein for ages.

78:24

لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًا وَلَا شَرَابًا ﴿٢٤﴾

Lā yadhūqūna fīhā bardan walā sharābā

Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

78:25

إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا ﴿٢٥﴾

Illā ḥamīman waghassāqā

Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

78:26

جَزَآءً وِفَاقًا ﴿٢٦﴾

Jazāʾan wifāqā

Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

78:27

إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَرْجُونَ حِسَابًا ﴿٢٧﴾

Innahum kānū lā yarjūna ḥisābā

For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

78:28

وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا كِذَّابًا ﴿٢٨﴾

Wakadhdhabū biʾāyātinā kidhdhābā

They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

78:29

وَكُلَّ شَىْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَـٰهُ كِتَـٰبًا ﴿٢٩﴾

Wakulla shayʾin aḥṣaynāhu kitābā

Everything have We recorded in a Book.

78:30

فَذُوقُوا۟ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا ﴿٣٠﴾

Fadhūqū falan nazīdakum illā ʿadhābā

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

78:31

إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا ﴿٣١﴾

Inna lilmuttaqīna mafāzā

Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

78:32

حَدَآئِقَ وَأَعْنَـٰبًا ﴿٣٢﴾

Ḥadāʾiqa waʾaʿnābā

Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

78:33

وَكَوَاعِبَ أَتْرَابًا ﴿٣٣﴾

Wakawāʿiba atrābā

And voluptuous women of equal age;

78:34

وَكَأْسًا دِهَاقًا ﴿٣٤﴾

Wakaʾsan dihāqā

And a full cup.

78:35

لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا وَلَا كِذَّٰبًا ﴿٣٥﴾

Lā yasmaʿūna fīhā laghwan walā kidhdhābā

There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

78:36

جَزَآءً مِّن رَّبِّكَ عَطَآءً حِسَابًا ﴿٣٦﴾

Jazāʾan min rabbika ʿaṭāʾan ḥisābā

Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -

78:37

رَّبِّ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ۖ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِنْهُ خِطَابًا ﴿٣٧﴾

Rabbi as-samāwāti wal-arḍi wamā baynahumā ar-raḥmāni lā yamlikūna minhu khiṭābā

Lord 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 ﴿٣٨﴾

Yawma yaqūmu ar-rūḥu wal-malāʾikatu ṣaffan lā yatakallamūna illā man adhina lahu ar-raḥmānu waqāla ṣawābā

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

78:39

ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۖ فَمَن شَآءَ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ مَـَٔابًا ﴿٣٩﴾

Dhālika al-yawmu al-ḥaqqu faman shāʾa ittakhadha ilā rabbihi maʾābā

That 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 ﴿٤٠﴾

Innā andharnākum ʿadhāban qarīban yawma yanẓuru al-marʾu mā qaddamat yadāhu wayaqūlu al-kāfiru yā laytanī kuntu turābā

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!"