| 078.000 The Tidings
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| 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, |
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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!" |
