Chapter 078
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
078.001 Whereof do they question one another?
078.002 Concerning the Great News,
078.003 About which they cannot agree.
078.004 Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!
078.005 Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know!
078.006 Have We not made the earth an even expanse?
078.007 And the mountains as projections (thereon)?
078.008 And We created you in pairs,
078.009 And We made your sleep to be rest (to you),
078.010 And We made the night to be a covering,
078.011 And made the day as a means of subsistence?
078.012 And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments
078.013 And We made a shining lamp,
078.014 And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly.
078.015 Thereby to produce grain and plant,
078.016 And gardens of luxurious growth?
078.017 Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed.
078.018 The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you shall come forth in hosts.
078.019 And the heavens shall be opened as if there were doors,
078.020 And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage.
078.021 Surely hell lies in wait,
078.022 For the transgressors a place of destination
078.023 They will dwell therein for ages.
078.024 Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink,
078.025 Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold,
078.026 A fitting recompense (for them).
078.027 For that they used not to fear any account (for their deeds),
078.028 They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
078.029 And We have recorded everything in a book,
078.030 “So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in Punishment.”
078.031 Verily for the Righteous there will be a fulfilment of (the heart’s) desires;
078.032 Gardens enclosed, and grapevines;
078.033 And voluptuous women of equal age;
078.034 And a pure cup.
078.035 They shall not hear therein any vain words nor lying.
078.036 A reward from your Lord, a gift according to a reckoning:
078.037 (From) the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all between, (Allah) Most Gracious: None shall have power to argue with Him.
078.038 The Day that the Spirit and the angels will stand forth in ranks, none shall speak except any who is permitted by (Allah) Most Gracious, and He will say what is right.
078.039 That Day will be the sure Reality: Therefore, whoso will, let him take a (straight) return to his Lord!
078.040 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!”