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Ahmed Ali

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78 An-Naba' ٱلنَّبَأ

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
78:1 عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ
78:1
Ahmed Ali (English) :
OF WHAT ARE they asking one another?
78:2 عَنِ ٱلنَّبَإِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
78:2
Ahmed Ali (English) :
(Is it) of the great announcement
78:3 ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ
78:3
Ahmed Ali (English) :
About which they have been differing?
78:4 كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ
78:4
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Indeed they will come to know soon;
78:5 ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ
78:5
Ahmed Ali (English) :
They will indeed come to know soon.
78:6 أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِهَـٰدًا
78:6
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Did We not make the earth a spreading,
78:7 وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا
78:7
Ahmed Ali (English) :
The mountains tent-pins?
78:8 وَخَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًا
78:8
Ahmed Ali (English) :
We created you in pairs,
78:9 وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا
78:9
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And made sleep for you to rest,
78:10 وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا
78:10
Ahmed Ali (English) :
The night a covering,
78:11 وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلنَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا
78:11
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And the day for seeking livelihood.
78:12 وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًا شِدَادًا
78:12
Ahmed Ali (English) :
We raised over you several secure (skies),
78:13 وَجَعَلْنَا سِرَاجًا وَهَّاجًا
78:13
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And placed a lamp therein brightly burning.
78:14 وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمُعْصِرَٰتِ مَآءً ثَجَّاجًا
78:14
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And We sent down rain from water-laden clouds pouring in torrents
78:15 لِّنُخْرِجَ بِهِۦ حَبًّا وَنَبَاتًا
78:15
Ahmed Ali (English) :
That We may produce from it grain and vegetation,
78:16 وَجَنَّـٰتٍ أَلْفَافًا
78:16
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And orchards full of trees and interlacing boughs.
78:17 إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَـٰتًا
78:17
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Surely a time is fixed for the Day of Judgement.
78:18 يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَتَأْتُونَ أَفْوَاجًا
78:18
Ahmed Ali (English) :
The day the trumpet blast is sounded you will come in hordes;
78:19 وَفُتِحَتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ أَبْوَٰبًا
78:19
Ahmed Ali (English) :
The heavens will be opened wide and turn into so many doors,
78:20 وَسُيِّرَتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا
78:20
Ahmed Ali (English) :
The mountains put in motion turning into a mirage.
78:21 إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا
78:21
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Certainly Hell lies in wait,
78:22 لِّلطَّـٰغِينَ مَـَٔابًا
78:22
Ahmed Ali (English) :
The rebels' abode,
78:23 لَّـٰبِثِينَ فِيهَآ أَحْقَابًا
78:23
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Where they will remain for aeons,
78:24 لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًا وَلَا شَرَابًا
78:24
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Finding neither sleep nor any thing to drink
78:25 إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا
78:25
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Except boiling water and benumbing cold:
78:26 جَزَآءً وِفَاقًا
78:26
Ahmed Ali (English) :
, A fitting reward.
78:27 إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَرْجُونَ حِسَابًا
78:27
Ahmed Ali (English) :
They were those who did not expect a reckoning,
78:28 وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا كِذَّابًا
78:28
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And rejected Our signs as lies.
78:29 وَكُلَّ شَىْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَـٰهُ كِتَـٰبًا
78:29
Ahmed Ali (English) :
We have kept account of everything in a book.
78:30 فَذُوقُوا۟ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا
78:30
Ahmed Ali (English) :
So taste (the fruit of what you sowed), for We shall add nothing but torment,
78:31 إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا
78:31
Ahmed Ali (English) :
As for those who preserve themselves from evil and follow the straight path, there is attainment for them:
78:32 حَدَآئِقَ وَأَعْنَـٰبًا
78:32
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Orchards and vineyards,
78:33 وَكَوَاعِبَ أَتْرَابًا
78:33
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And graceful maidens of the same age,
78:34 وَكَأْسًا دِهَاقًا
78:34
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And flasks full and flowing.
78:35 لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا وَلَا كِذَّٰبًا
78:35
Ahmed Ali (English) :
They will hear no blasphemies there or disavowals:
78:36 جَزَآءً مِّن رَّبِّكَ عَطَآءً حِسَابًا
78:36
Ahmed Ali (English) :
A recompense from your Lord, a sufficient gift,
78:37 رَّبِّ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ۖ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِنْهُ خِطَابًا
78:37
Ahmed Ali (English) :
The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all that lies between them, most benevolent, to whom none may dare address a word.
78:38 يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلرُّوحُ وَٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ صَفًّا ۖ لَّا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنُ وَقَالَ صَوَابًا
78:38
Ahmed Ali (English) :
The day the Spirit takes its stand, with the angels ranged in rows. None will speak except who is permitted by Ar-Rahman and says what is right.
78:39 ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۖ فَمَن شَآءَ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ مَـَٔابًا
78:39
Ahmed Ali (English) :
That day is certain. So whosoever likes may prepare a way to his Lord.
78:40 إِنَّآ أَنذَرْنَـٰكُمْ عَذَابًا قَرِيبًا يَوْمَ يَنظُرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ ٱلْكَافِرُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ تُرَٰبًۢا
78:40
Ahmed Ali (English) :
We have indeed warned you of a calamity near at hand, a day when man will see what he had sent (of his deeds) ahead, and the unbeliever will say: "Woe alas. Ah would that I were dust!"