VERSES : 1 – 40        Chapters                                                                                

78. THE NEWS ( Al – Naba )

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

1. About what do they ask one another?

2. About the great news,

3. concerning which they disagree?

4. No, they will come to know.

5. Again, no, they will come to know.

6. Did We not make the earth habitable

7. and the mountains pegs?

8. And We created you in pairs.

9. And We made your sleep for rest.

10. And We made the night a covering.

11. And We made the day (for earning) livelihood.

12. And We built above you seven strong ones.

13. And We made (the sun) a burning lamp { l }.

14. And We sent down from the rain-clouds, torrential rain,

15. that We may bring forth through it grain and vegetation

16. and dense gardens.

17. The day of decision is certainly fixed.          

18. The day it will be blown into the trumpet (or structure of the universe) you will come forth in groups.

19. And the sky will be opened so that it will become gates,

20. and the mountains will be moved away, so that they will become like flowing sand.

21. Hell certainly lies in wait,

22. a home for the rebellious.

23. They will stay in it for ages.

24. They will taste therein neither coolness nor drink,

25. except boiling water and pus*, * Dirty liquid that oozes out of wounds.

26. a reward proportional (to their sins).

27. They certainly did not hope that they would have to account for (their