78:1  What are they asking each other about

78:2  About the awesome tidings

78:3  About which they are in disagreement

78:4  No indeed! (They have no need to disagree or question one another about it:) Soon they will come to know

78:5  Again, no indeed! Soon they will come to know

78:6  Have We not made the earth as a cradle

78:7  And the mountains as masts

78:8  And We have created you in pairs

78:9  And We have made your sleep for rest

78:10  And We have made the night as a cloak (covering both you and the world)

78:11  And We have made the day for seeking livelihood

78:12  And We have built above you seven firm heavens

78:13  And We have set up (therein) a lamp blazing and resplendent

78:14  And We send down out of the rain-clouds water in abundance

78:15  So that We may produce with it grain and plants

78:16  And gardens dense and luxuriant

78:17  Now assuredly, the Day of Judgment and Distinction is a time appointed (as the result of all that takes place in this world)

78:18  The Day when the Trumpet is blown and you all come forth in hosts

78:19  And the heaven is opened (for the descent of angels), and becomes as if gates (so that the world of angels and the world of humankind join each other)

78:20  And the mountains are set in motion and so become as if they had never existed

78:21  Surely Hell lies as a place for surveillance

78:22  For the (disbelieving) rebellious, (and) a destined home (which they prepared for themselves while in the world)

78:23  Wherein they will remain for ages

78:24  There they will taste neither coolness nor any drink

78:25  Except boiling water and pus

78:26  As a recompense fitting (for their sins)

78:27  For they used not to expect to be called to account (for their deeds)

78:28  And denied Our Revelations (and all Our other signs in the universe) with willful, obstinate denial

78:29  And every thing (that they did) We wrote down as a record

78:30  So: "Taste (the fruit of your deeds), and We will not increase you except in suffering."

78:31  For the God-revering, pious there will surely be triumph

78:32  Gardens and vineyards

78:33  And youthful, full-breasted maidens of equal age

78:34  And a cup full to the brim

78:35  They will hear therein neither vain talk nor falsehood

78:36  (All this as) a reward from your Lord, a gift according to (His) reckoning in full satisfaction

78:37  The Lord of the heavens and the earth and (all) that is between them, the All-Merciful. No one will have the power to address Him

78:38  On that Day the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks. No one will speak except him whom the All-Merciful allows, and he speaks what is right

78:39  That Day (of Judgment) is the Day absolutely true (on which the truth will prevail). So whoever wills, then, let him take a way of return to his Lord

78:40  We have surely warned you against a punishment near at hand. On that Day a person will look at what he has forwarded (from the world) with his own hands, and the unbeliever will say: "Oh, would that I were mere dust (instead of being a responsible being with consciousness and free will)!"