Surah 78

النبإ

An-Naba

The Tidings

Surah 78 · Meccan · 40 Ayahs

Surah An-Naba (The Tidings) is chapter 78 of the Quran. It has 40 ayahs, was revealed in Mecca, and begins in juz 30.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
78:1
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About what are they asking one another?

78:2
٢

About the great news1 -

78:3
٣

That over which they are in disagreement.

78:4
٤

No! They are going to know.

78:5
٥

Then, no! They are going to know.

78:6
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Have We not made the earth a resting place?

78:7
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And the mountains as stakes?1

78:8
٨

And We created you in pairs.

78:9
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And made your sleep [a means for] rest

78:10
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And made the night as clothing1.

78:11
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And made the day for livelihood.

78:12
١٢

And constructed above you seven strong [heavens].

78:13
١٣

And made [therein] a burning lamp

78:14
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And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water.

78:15
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That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation.

78:16
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And gardens of entwined growth.

78:17
١٧

Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time -

78:18
١٨

The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes

78:19
١٩

And the heaven is opened and will become gateways.

78:20
٢٠

And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage.

78:21
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Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait

78:22
٢٢

For the transgressors, a place of return,

78:23
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In which they will remain for ages [unending].

78:24
٢٤

They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink.

78:25
٢٥

Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -

78:26
٢٦

An appropriate recompense.1

78:27
٢٧

Indeed, they were not expecting an account

78:28
٢٨

And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.

78:29
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But all things We have enumerated in writing.

78:30
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"So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment."1

78:31
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Indeed, for the righteous is attainment1 -

78:32
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Gardens and grapevines.

78:33
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And full-breasted [companions] of equal age.

78:34
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And a full cup.1

78:35
٣٥

No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood -

78:36
٣٦

[As] reward from your Lord, [a generous] gift [made due by] account,1

78:37
٣٧

[From] the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the Most Merciful. They possess not from Him [authority for] speech.1

78:38
٣٨

The Day that the Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] and the angels will stand in rows, they will not speak except for one whom the Most Merciful permits, and he will say what is correct.

78:39
٣٩

That is the True [i.e., certain] Day; so he who wills may take to his Lord a [way of] return.1

78:40
٤٠

Indeed, We have warned you of an impending punishment on the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth1 and the disbeliever will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"