1Whereof do they question one another?
2(It is) of the awful tidings,
3 Concerning which they are in disagreement.
78:1-201Whereof do they question one another?
2(It is) of the awful tidings,
3 Concerning which they are in disagreement.
They argue about the awful tidings.
4Nay, but they will come to know!
5Nay, again, but they will come to know!
6 Have We not made the earth an expanse,
7 And the high hills bulwarks?
8 And We have created you in pairs,
9 And have appointed your sleep for repose,
10 And have appointed the night as a cloak,
11 And have appointed the day for livelihood.
But they'll find out soon enough.
12 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),
13And have appointed a dazzling lamp,
14 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
15 Thereby to produce grain and plant,
16 And gardens of thick foliage.
17Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,
18A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,
19And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,
20And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
The day of decision is fixed in time.
The trumpet will blow and all the people will come.
The heaven will open and the hills will move like a mirage.
78:21-30The rebels in hell will be there for ages.
24Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink
25Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
26 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).
27 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;
They'll have nothing cool to drink,
only boiling waer and a paralyzing cold.
28They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
29Everything have We recorded in a Book.
30So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
They called denied our revelations and called them false.
We wrote it all down in a book.
So taste the torment that you've earned.
It will only get worse with time.
78:31-39But the duteous will live in gardens,
33And maidens for companions,
34And a full cup.
35 There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -
36 Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
37 Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
38 On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.
39 That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
with maidens for companions.
And a full cup.
78:4040Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: "Would that I were dust!"
But a doom is coming.
Disbelievers will cry: "I wish I were dust."
