Holy Quran Verses

Holy Quran Verses from Pickthall's Translation

Surah Naba': The Tidings

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

078.001	Whereof do they question one another?
078.002	(It is) of the awful tidings,
078.003	Concerning which they are in disagreement.
078.004	Nay, but they will come to know!
078.005	Nay, again, but they will come to know!
078.006	Have We not made the earth an expanse,
078.007	And the high hills bulwarks?
078.008	And We have created you in pairs,
078.009	And have appointed your sleep for repose,
078.010	And have appointed the night as a cloak,
078.011	And have appointed the day for livelihood.
078.012	And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),
078.013	And have appointed a dazzling lamp,
078.014	And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
078.015	Thereby to produce grain and plant,
078.016	And gardens of thick foliage.
078.017	Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,
078.018	A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,
078.019	And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,
078.020	And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
078.021	Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
078.022	A home for the rebellious.
078.023	They will abide therein for ages.
078.024	Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink
078.025	Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
078.026	Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).
078.027	For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;
078.028	They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
078.029	Everything have We recorded in a Book.
078.030	So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
078.031	Lo! for the duteous is achievement -
078.032	Gardens enclosed and vineyards,
078.033	And maidens for companions,
078.034	And a full cup.
078.035	There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -
078.036	Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
078.037	Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
078.038	On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.
078.039	That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto 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!"

Let us pray (Sura 20, Ayat 114) 'Ya Rabbi Zidni Ilma!' ('O Lord! Increase me in knowledge.') and seek spiritual help (ta'yid) to understand our great faith.

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