| | T.B.Irving rendition of Surah The Tidings, The Announcement(an-Naba`)
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| 78:1 | | What are they questioning one another about? |
| 78:2 | | About an important announcement |
| 78:3 | | which they are disagreeing over. |
| 78:4 | | However they soon will know! |
| 78:5 | | Then indeed they shall know! |
| 78:6 | | Have We not laid the earth out as a cradle |
| 78:7 | | and [set] the mountains up as kingpins? |
| 78:8 | | We have created you in pairs |
| 78:9 | | and granted your sleeping for repose |
| 78:10 | | and granted night as a garment, |
| 78:11 | | and granted daytime for [you to earn your] living in. |
| 78:12 | | We have built seven firmaments above you |
| 78:13 | | and set a blazing lamp there. |
| 78:14 | | We send down water in torrents wrung from rainclouds |
| 78:15 | | so We may produce grain and plants with it, |
| 78:16 | | as well as luxuriant gardens. |
| 78:17 | | The day for Sorting has been appointed, |
| 78:18 | | the day when the Trumpet shall be blown so you will come in droves, |
| 78:19 | | and the sky will open up as if it had gates, |
| 78:20 | | and the mountains will travel along as if they were a mirage. |
| 78:21 | | Hell will lurk in ambush |
| 78:22 | | to receive home the arrogant, |
| 78:23 | | who will linger there for ages. |
| 78:24 | | They will taste nothing cool in it nor any drink |
| 78:25 | | except hot bathwater and slops, |
| 78:26 | | [which are such] a fitting compensation |
| 78:27 | | since they have never expected [to meet with] any reckoning |
| 78:28 | | and have wittingly rejected Our signs. |
| 78:29 | | Everything have We calculated in writing: |
| 78:30 | | "So taste! Yet We shall only increase torment for you!" |
| 78:31 | | The heedful will have their scene of triumph |
| 78:32 | | with parks and vineyards, |
| 78:33 | | as well as buxom maidens their own age |
| 78:34 | | and a brimming The cup. |
| 78:35 | | They will hear no idle talk nor any lying [gossip] there, |
| 78:36 | | as a compensation from your Lord, a calculated gift. |
| 78:37 | | Lord of Heaven and Earth as well as whatever is in between them, [He is] the Mercy-giving! They control no means of addressing Him; |
| 78:38 | | on the day when the Spirit and the angels will stand there in ranks, only someone the Mercy-giving grants permission to shall speak, and he will speak straight to the point. |
| 78:39 | | That day will seem too real! Anyone who wishes to, may adopt his recourse to [reach] the Lord. |
| 78:40 | | We have warned you (all) how punishment lies close-at-hand, on a day when any man will see whatever his own hands have sent on ahead, and the disbeliever will say: "If I were only dust!" |
