Sura LXXVIII (78)
The News
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Of
what ask they of one another?
Of the
great News.
The
theme of their disputes.
Nay!
they shall certainly know its truth!
Again.
Nay! they shall certainly know it.
Have
we not made the Earth a couch?
And
the mountains its tent-stakes?
We
have created you of two sexes,
And
ordained your sleep for rest,
78:10 And ordained the night as a mantle,
And
ordained the day for gaining livelihood,
And
built above you seven solid heavens,
And
placed therein a burning lamp;
And we
send down water in abundance from the rain-clouds,
That
we may bring froth by it corn and herbs,
And
gardens thick with trees.
Lo!
the day of Severance is fixed;
The
day when there shall be a blast on the trumpet, and you shall come in crowds,
And
the heaven shall be opened and be full of portals,
78:20 And the mountains shall be set in
motion, and melt into thin vapour.
Hell
truly shall be a place of snares,
The
home of transgressors,
To
abide therein ages;
No
coolness shall they taste therein nor any drink,
Save
boiling water and running sores;
Meet
recompense!
For
they looked not forward to their account;
And
they gave the lie to our signs, charging them with falsehood;
But we
noted and wrote down all:
78:30 "Taste this then: and we will give you increase of nought but
torment."
But,
for the God-fearing is a blissful abode,
Enclosed
gardens and vineyards;
And
damsels with swelling breasts, their peers in age,
And a
full cup:
There
shall they hear no vain discourse nor any falsehood:P
A
recompense from thy Lord -- sufficing gift! --
Lord
of the heavens and of the earth, and of all that between them lieth - the God
of Mercy! But not a word shall they obtain from Him.
On the
day whereon the Spirit and the Angels shall be ranged in order, they shall not
speak: save he whom the God of Mercy shall
permit, and who shall say that which is right.
This
is the sure day. Whoso then will, let him take the path of return to his Lord.
78:40 Verily, we warn you of a chastisement
close at hand:
The
day on which a man shall see the deeds which his hands have sent before him;
and when the unbeliever shall say, "Oh! would I were dust!"