78:1  About what do they ask each other?

78:2  About the momentous disclosure,

78:3  the one in which they hold contrarian views!

78:4  On the contrary, they shall soon know

78:5  Then, not any [views] at all. They shall know.

78:6  Have WE not rendered the earth as a cradle?

78:7  And the mountains as anchors?

78:8  And WE have created you in complementary pairs

78:9  And WE made your sleep a time of rest

78:10  And WE rendered the night as a cloak

78:11  And WE made the day a bearer of livelihood

78:12  And WE raised above you the unyielding seven

78:13  And WE placed a brightly burning lamp

78:14  And WE sent down profusely streaming water from the fusing clouds

78:15  So, WE may thereby bring forth grain and a profusion of plants

78:16  And lushly dense gardens

78:17  Of certain, the Day of Sorting was ever set in time—

78:18  a day the forms are blown into— for you to come forth in droves

78:19  And the heavens were opened— they were portals

78:20  And the mountains were moved away— they were a mirage.

78:21  Of certain, Jahannam was lying in wait

78:22  for the unrestrained usurpers, a homecoming

78:23  to tarry therein for long spans.

78:24  They will taste therein neither any coolness nor any drink,

78:25  except a fluid bereft of mercy [ḥamīm], and a fluid of gloom [ghassāq]

78:26  A fitting recompense.

78:27  Surely, they were not expecting to be called to account

78:28  And they had given OUR signs the lie— lie after lie

78:29  And everything, WE had committed [with every detail] to a record

78:30  Hence, taste [your own doings]. So [now when it is too late to repent] WE will not give you more of anything except a punishment.

78:31  Verily, for the God-conscious is the fruition of success:

78:32  Orchards and vineyards

78:33  and splendid companions, perfectly matched

78:34  and a full cup.

78:35  They are not to hear therein any vain chatter or false talk

78:36  A recompense from your Rabb— a fully reckoned grant.

78:37  Rabb of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them— Al Raḥmān! They will not possess the power from HIM to speak,

78:38  The day when the Spirit and the angels stand arrayed. None will speak, or be spoken to, except one given leave by Al Raḥmān— and he had spoken rightly.

78:39  That is the Day, Real and True. So, whosoever had willed, had taken a homecoming unto his Rabb.

78:40  Surely, WE have warned you of an imminent punishment on a day when every individual will see what his two hands sent ahead, and the disbeliever will say, “O I wish I were dust.”