78:1  What is it that they are questioning each other about?!

78:2  [Is it] about the Great Tiding,

78:3  the one about which they differ?

78:4  No indeed! Soon they will know!

78:5  No indeed! Soon they will know for once again!

78:6  Did We not make the earth a resting place?

78:7  and the mountains stakes?

78:8  and create you in pairs?

78:9  and make your sleep for rest?

78:10  and make the night a covering?

78:11  and make the day for livelihood?

78:12  and build above you the seven mighty heavens?

78:13  and make [the sun for] a radiant lamp?

78:14  and send down water pouring from the rain-clouds,

78:15  that We may bring forth with it grains and plants,

78:16  and luxuriant gardens?

78:17  Indeed the Day of Judgement is the tryst,

78:18  the day the Trumpet will be blown, and you will come in groups,

78:19  and the sky will be opened and become gates,

78:20  and the mountains will be set moving and become a mirage.

78:21  Indeed hell is in ambush,

78:22  a resort for the rebels,

78:23  to reside therein for ages,

78:24  tasting in it neither any coolness nor drink,

78:25  except boiling water and pus,

78:26  a fitting requital.

78:27  Indeed they did not expect any reckoning,

78:28  and they denied Our signs mendaciously,

78:29  and We have figured everything in a Book.

78:30  So [now] taste! We shall increase you in nothing but punishment!

78:31  Indeed a triumph awaits the Godwary:

78:32  gardens and vineyards,

78:33  and buxom maidens of a like age,

78:34  and brimming cups.

78:35  Therein they shall hear neither vain talk nor lies

78:36  —a reward and a sufficing bounty from your Lord,

78:37  the All-beneficent, the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them. They will not be able to address Him

78:38  on the day when the Spirit and the angels stand in an array: none shall speak except someone who is permitted by the All-beneficent and says what is rightful.

78:39  That day is true for certain. So let anyone who wishes take resort with his Lord.

78:40  Indeed We have warned you of a punishment near at hand—the day when a person will observe what his hands have sent ahead and the faithless one will say, ‘I wish I were dust!’