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78. An-Naba

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

Whereof do they question one another?

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(It is) of the awful tidings,

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Concerning which they are in disagreement.

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Nay, but they will come to know!

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Nay, again, but they will come to know!

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Have We not made the earth an expanse,

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And the high hills bulwarks?

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And We have created you in pairs,

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And have appointed your sleep for repose,

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And have appointed the night as a cloak,

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And have appointed the day for livelihood.

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

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And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

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And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,

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Thereby to produce grain and plant,

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And gardens of thick foliage.

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Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

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

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And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

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

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Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

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A home for the rebellious.

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They will abide therein for ages.

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Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

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Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

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Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

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For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

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They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

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Everything have We recorded in a Book.

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

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Lo! for the duteous is achievement—

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Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

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And maidens for companions,

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And a full cup.

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There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying—

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Requital from thy Lord—a gift in payment—

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

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

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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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Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930). Text of the 1930 edition, transcribed by Wikisource contributors; remaining pages read by OCR from the Wikimedia Commons scan. · Source ↗

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