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By Vexen Crabtree 2013
Title: An-Naba
English: The Tidings
Location: Makkah
Traditional Order:
< Sura 77 (Al-Mursalat - The Emissaries)
> Sura 79 (An-Naziat - Those Who Drag Forth)
Chronological Order:
< Sura 70 (Al-Maarij - The Ascending Stairways)
> Sura 79 (An-Naziat - Those Who Drag Forth)
Verses: 40
| 1 | Of what do they question one another? | Some comments on Sura 78:6 are on Christianity v. Astronomy: The Earth Orbits the Sun!: 7. Islam and the Qur'an. Sura 78:6 comments: Islam and Science: Errors in the Qur'an and Arab Education: 1. Astronomy Mistakes. Sura 78:12 is referenced on The Foundations of Islam in Paganism: 3. The Hajj and the Pagan Number Seven. Sura 78:12: The Mystical Number 7: 3. In the Qur'an (Islam). Sura 78:21-25: Universalism: If there is a Good God, Everyone Must Go to Heaven: 7.2. Some People Sent to Hell for a Long Time. Sura 78:21-25 appears on Universalism: If there is a Good God, Everyone Must Go to Heaven: 7.2. Some People Sent to Hell for a Long Time. |
| 2 | Of the mighty tiding | |
| 3 | whereon they are at variance. | |
| 4 | No indeed; they shall soon know! | |
| 5 | Again, no indeed; they shall soon know! | |
| 6 | Have We not made the earth as a cradle | |
| 7 | and the mountains as pegs? | |
| 8 | And We created you in pairs, | |
| 9 | and We appointed your sleep for a rest; | |
| 10 | and We appointed night for a garment, | |
| 11 | and We appointed day for a livelihood. | |
| 12 | And We have built above you seven strong ones, | |
| 13 | and We appointed a blazing lamp | |
| 14 | and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading | |
| 15 | that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, | |
| 16 | and gardens luxuriant. | |
| 17 | Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, | |
| 18 | the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, | |
| 19 | and heaven is opened, and become gates, | |
| 20 | and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour. | |
| 21 | Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, | |
| 22 | for the insolent a resort, | |
| 23 | therein to tarry for ages, | |
| 24 | tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink | |
| 25 | save boiling water and pus | |
| 26 | for a suitable recompense. | |
| 27 | They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, | |
| 28 | and they cried loud lies to Our signs; | |
| 29 | and everything We have numbered in a Book. | |
| 30 | 'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.' | |
| 31 | Surely for the godfearing awaits a place of security, | |
| 32 | gardens and vineyards | |
| 33 | and maidens with swelling breasts, like of age, | |
| 34 | and a cup overflowing. | |
| 35 | Therein they shall hear no idle talk, no cry of lies, | |
| 36 | for a recompense from thy Lord, a gift, a reckoning, | |
| 37 | Lord of the heavens and earth, and all that between them is, the All-merciful of whom they have no power to speak. | |
| 38 | Upon the day when the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks they shall speak not, save him to whom the All-merciful has given leave, and who speaks aright. | |
| 39 | That is the true day; so whosoever wills takes unto his Lord a resort. | |
| 40 | Lo, We have warned you of a nigh chastisement, upon the day when a man shall behold what his hands have forwarded, and the unbeliever shall say, 'O would that I were dust!' |