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Sura Lxxviii. Nabaa, Or The News

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"The Holy Quran", tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934],

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Sra Lxxviii.

\"NABAA," Or The (great) News.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,

Most Merciful.

1.
Concerning what

Are they disputing?

2.
Concerning the Great News,

3.
About which they

Cannot agree.

4.
Verily, they shall soon

(Come to) know!

5.
Verily, verily they shall

Soon (come to) know!

6.
Have We not made

The earth as a wide

Expanse,

7.
And the mountains as pegs?

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8.
And (have We not) created

You in pairs,

9.
And made your sleep

For rest,

10.
And made the night

As a covering,

11.
And made the day

As a means of subsistence?

12.
And (have We not)

Built over you

The seven firmaments,

13.
And placed (therein)

A Light of Splendour?

14.
And do We not send down

From the clouds water

In abundance,

15.
That We may produce

Therewith corn and vegetables,

16.
And gardens of luxurious growth?

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17.
Verily the Day

Of Sorting Out

Is a thing appointed,--

18.
The Day that the Trumpet

Shall be sounded, and ye

Shall come forth in crowds;

19.
And the heavens

Shall be opened

As if there were doors,

20.
And the mountains

Shall vanish, as if

They were a mirage.

21.
Truly Hell is

As a place of ambush,--

22.
For the transgressors

A place of destination:

23.
They will dwell therein

For ages.

24.
Nothing cool shall they taste

Therein, nor any drink,

25.
Save a boiling fluid

And a fluid, dark, murky,

Intensely cold,--

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26. A
fitting recompense

(For them).

27.
For that they used not

To fear any account

(For their deeds),

28.
But they (impudently) treated

Our Signs as false.

29.
And all things have We

Preserved on record.

30.
\"So taste ye (the fruits

Of your deeds
);

For no increase

Shall We grant you,

Except in Punishment.

Section 2.

31.
Verily for the Righteous

There will be

A fulfilment of

(The Heart's) desires;

32.
Gardens enclosed, and Grapevines;

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33.
Companions of Equal age;

34.
And a Cup full

(To the brim).

35.
No Vanity shall they hear

Therein, nor Untruth;--

36.
Recompense from thy Lord,

A Gift, (amply) sufficient,--

37.
(From the Lord

Of the heavens

And the earth, and all between,--

(God) Most Gracious:

None shall have power

To argue with Him.

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38.
The Day that

The Spirit and the angels

Will stand forth in ranks,

None shall speak

Except any who is

Permitted by (God) Most Gracious,

And he will say

What is right.

39. that day will be

The sure Reality:


Therefore, whoso will let him

Take a (straight) Return

To his Lord!

40.
Verily, we have warned you

Of a Penalty near,--

The Day when man will

See (the Deeds) which

His hands have sent forth,

And the Unbeliever will say,

"Woe unto me! Would that

I were mere dust!"

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