PART 30

The Tidings

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[78:1]

Whereof do they question one another ?

[78:2]

(It is) of the awful tidings,

[78:3]

Concerning which they are in disagreement.

[78:4]

Nay, but they will come to know!

[78:5]

Nay, again, but they will come to know!

[78:6]

Have We not made the earth an expanse,

[78:7]

And the high hills bulwarks ?

[78:8]

And We have created you in pairs,

[78:9]

And have appointed your sleep for repose,

[78:10]

And have appointed the night as a cloak,

[78:11]

And have appointed the day for livelihood.

[78:12]

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

[78:13]

And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

[78:14]

And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,

[78:15]

Thereby to produce grain and plant,

[78:16]

And gardens of thick foliage.

[78:17]

Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

[78:18]

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

[78:19]

And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

[78:20]

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

[78:21]

Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

[78:22]

A home for the rebellious.

[78:23]

They will abide therein for ages.

[78:24]

Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

[78:25]

Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

[78:26]

Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

[78:27]

For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

[78:28]

They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

[78:29]

Everything have We recorded in a Book.

[78:30]

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