Surah “The Tidings, The Announcement”

as rendered by M. M. Pickthall — 40 verses

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
78:31
Lo! for the duteous is achievement
78:32
Gardens enclosed and vineyards
78:33
And maidens for companion
78:34
And a full cup
78:35
There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying
78:36
Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment
78:37
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse
78:38
On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right
78:39
That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord
78:40
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!"