Quran Chapter 78: Surah An-Naba (The Tidings) English Translation

(78:1) About what are they asking one another? (78:2) Is it about the awesome tiding (78:3) that they are in utter disagreement? (78:4) No indeed; soon will they come to know; (78:5) again, no indeed; soon will they come to know. (78:6) Have We not spread the earth like a bed, (78:7) and fixed the mountains like pegs, (78:8) and created you in pairs (as men and women), (78:9) and made your sleep a means of repose, (78:10) and made the night a covering, (78:11) and made the day to seek livelihood, (78:12) and built above you seven strong firmaments, (78:13) and placed therein a hot, shining lamp, (78:14) and sent down abundant water from the clouds (78:15) so that We may thereby bring forth grain and vegetation, (78:16) and gardens dense with foliage? (78:17) Surely the Day of Judgement has an appointed time; (78:18) the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes; (78:19) and when the sky shall be opened up and will become all doors; (78:20) and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. (78:21) Surely the Hell is an ambush, (78:22) a resort for the rebellious; (78:23) therein they shall abide for ages, (78:24) they shall taste in it no coolness, nor any pleasant drink (78:25) save boiling water and wash of the wounds; (78:26) a befitting recompense for their deeds. (78:27) For indeed they did not look forward to any reckoning, (78:28) and roundly denied Our Signs as false. (78:29) And everything have We recorded in a Book. (78:30) So taste (the fruit of your deeds). We shall only increase your torment. (78:31) Surely the state of triumph awaits the God-fearing: (78:32) gardens and vineyards, (78:33) and youthful maidens of like age, (78:34) and an overflowing cup. (78:35) Therein they shall hear no idle talk, nor any falsehood; (78:36) a recompense from your Lord and an ample reward (78:37) from the Lord of the heavens and the earth and of that which is between them; the Most Merciful Lord before Whom none dare utter a word. (78:38) The Day when the Spirit and the angels are ranged row on row. None shall speak save he whom the Merciful Lord will permit; and he too will speak what is right. (78:39) That Day is sure to come. So let him who will seek a resort with his Lord. (78:40) Lo! We warn you of a chastisement near at hand; the Day when a man will look on what his own hands have sent forth, and the unbelievers shall say: “Oh would that I were utter dust.”