| | Aisha Bewley rendition of Surah The Tidings, The Announcement(an-Naba`)
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| 78:1 | | About what are they asking one another? |
| 78:2 | | About the momentous news: |
| 78:3 | | the thing about which they differ. |
| 78:4 | | No indeed! They will soon know! |
| 78:5 | | Again, no indeed! They will soon know! |
| 78:6 | | Have We not made the earth a flat carpet |
| 78:7 | | and the mountains its pegs? |
| 78:8 | | We have created you in pairs. |
| 78:9 | | We made your sleep a break. |
| 78:10 | | We made the night a cloak. |
| 78:11 | | We made the day for earning a living. |
| 78:12 | | We built seven firm layers above you. |
| 78:13 | | We installed a blazing lamp. |
| 78:14 | | We sent down cascading water from the clouds |
| 78:15 | | so that by it We might bring forth grains and plants |
| 78:16 | | and luxuriant gardens. |
| 78:17 | | The Day of Decision is a fixed appointment: |
| 78:18 | | the Day the Trumpet is blown and you come in droves, |
| 78:19 | | and heaven is opened and becomes doorways, |
| 78:20 | | and the mountains are shifted and become a mirage. |
| 78:21 | | Hell lies in wait — |
| 78:22 | | a homecoming for the profligate |
| 78:23 | | remaining in it for countless aeons, |
| 78:24 | | not tasting any coolness there or any drink, |
| 78:25 | | except for boiling water and scalding pus — |
| 78:26 | | a fitting recompense. |
| 78:27 | | They did not expect to have a reckoning |
| 78:28 | | and utterly denied Our Signs. |
| 78:29 | | We have recorded all things in writing. |
| 78:30 | | So taste! We will increase you only in punishment. |
| 78:31 | | For those who have taqwa there is triumph: |
| 78:32 | | Gardens and grape vines, |
| 78:33 | | and nubile maidens of similar age, |
| 78:34 | | and an overflowing cup, |
| 78:35 | | where they will hear no prattle and no denial, |
| 78:36 | | a recompense from your Lord, a commensurate gift. |
| 78:37 | | Lord of the heavens and earth and everything between them, the All-Merciful. They will not have the power to speak to Him. |
| 78:38 | | On the Day when the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks, no one will speak, except for him who is authorised by the All-Merciful and says what is right. |
| 78:39 | | That will be the True Day. So whoever wills should take the way back to his Lord. |
| 78:40 | | We have warned you of an imminent punishment on the Day when a man will see what he has done, and the kafir will say, ´Oh, if only I were dust!´ |
