SURAH 78 · 40 AYAHS · MECCAN

An-Naba

The Announcement

النبإ
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78:1Page 582 · Juz 30

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ ۝١

Whereof do they question one another?

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78:2Page 582 · Juz 30

عَنِ ٱلنَّبَإِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ ۝٢

(It is) of the awful tidings,

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78:3Page 582 · Juz 30

ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ ۝٣

Concerning which they are in disagreement.

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78:4Page 582 · Juz 30

كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ ۝٤

Nay, but they will come to know!

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78:5Page 582 · Juz 30

ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ ۝٥

Nay, again, but they will come to know!

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78:6Page 582 · Juz 30

أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِهَـٰدًا ۝٦

Have We not made the earth an expanse,

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وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا ۝٧

And the high hills bulwarks?

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78:8Page 582 · Juz 30

وَخَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًا ۝٨

And We have created you in pairs,

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78:9Page 582 · Juz 30

وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا ۝٩

And have appointed your sleep for repose,

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78:10Page 582 · Juz 30

وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا ۝١٠

And have appointed the night as a cloak,

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78:11Page 582 · Juz 30

وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلنَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا ۝١١

And have appointed the day for livelihood.

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78:12Page 582 · Juz 30

وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًا شِدَادًا ۝١٢

And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),

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78:13Page 582 · Juz 30

وَجَعَلْنَا سِرَاجًا وَهَّاجًا ۝١٣

And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

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78:14Page 582 · Juz 30

وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمُعْصِرَٰتِ مَآءً ثَجَّاجًا ۝١٤

And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,

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78:15Page 582 · Juz 30

لِّنُخْرِجَ بِهِۦ حَبًّا وَنَبَاتًا ۝١٥

Thereby to produce grain and plant,

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78:16Page 582 · Juz 30

وَجَنَّـٰتٍ أَلْفَافًا ۝١٦

And gardens of thick foliage.

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78:17Page 582 · Juz 30

إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَـٰتًا ۝١٧

Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

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78:18Page 582 · Juz 30

يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَتَأْتُونَ أَفْوَاجًا ۝١٨

A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,

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78:19Page 582 · Juz 30

وَفُتِحَتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ أَبْوَٰبًا ۝١٩

And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

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78:20Page 582 · Juz 30

وَسُيِّرَتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا ۝٢٠

And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.

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78:21Page 582 · Juz 30

إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا ۝٢١

Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

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78:22Page 582 · Juz 30

لِّلطَّـٰغِينَ مَـَٔابًا ۝٢٢

A home for the rebellious.

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78:23Page 582 · Juz 30

لَّـٰبِثِينَ فِيهَآ أَحْقَابًا ۝٢٣

They will abide therein for ages.

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78:24Page 582 · Juz 30

لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًا وَلَا شَرَابًا ۝٢٤

Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

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78:25Page 582 · Juz 30

إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا ۝٢٥

Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

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78:26Page 582 · Juz 30

جَزَآءً وِفَاقًا ۝٢٦

Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

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78:27Page 582 · Juz 30

إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَرْجُونَ حِسَابًا ۝٢٧

For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

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78:28Page 582 · Juz 30

وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا كِذَّابًا ۝٢٨

They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

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78:29Page 582 · Juz 30

وَكُلَّ شَىْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَـٰهُ كِتَـٰبًا ۝٢٩

Everything have We recorded in a Book.

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78:30Page 582 · Juz 30

فَذُوقُوا۟ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا ۝٣٠

So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.

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78:31Page 583 · Juz 30

إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا ۝٣١

Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

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78:32Page 583 · Juz 30

حَدَآئِقَ وَأَعْنَـٰبًا ۝٣٢

Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

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78:33Page 583 · Juz 30

وَكَوَاعِبَ أَتْرَابًا ۝٣٣

And voluptuous women of equal age;

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78:34Page 583 · Juz 30

وَكَأْسًا دِهَاقًا ۝٣٤

And a full cup.

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78:35Page 583 · Juz 30

لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا وَلَا كِذَّٰبًا ۝٣٥

There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

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78:36Page 583 · Juz 30

جَزَآءً مِّن رَّبِّكَ عَطَآءً حِسَابًا ۝٣٦

Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -

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78:37Page 583 · Juz 30

رَّبِّ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ۖ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِنْهُ خِطَابًا ۝٣٧

Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.

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78:38Page 583 · Juz 30

يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلرُّوحُ وَٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ صَفًّا ۖ لَّا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنُ وَقَالَ صَوَابًا ۝٣٨

On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.

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78:39Page 583 · Juz 30

ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۖ فَمَن شَآءَ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ مَـَٔابًا ۝٣٩

That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.

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78:40Page 583 · Juz 30

إِنَّآ أَنذَرْنَـٰكُمْ عَذَابًا قَرِيبًا يَوْمَ يَنظُرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ ٱلْكَافِرُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ تُرَٰبًۢا ۝٤٠

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!"

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