# Sura  78 - The News

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> SURA LXXVIII (78) - The News   (Mecca - 41 Verses)          (XXXVII - 51)    
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        Of what ask they of one another?
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>        Of the great News.
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>        The theme of their disputes.
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>        Nay! they shall certainly know its truth!
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>        Again.  Nay! they shall certainly know it.
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>        Have we not made the Earth a couch?
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>        And the mountains its tent-stakes?
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>        We have created you of two sexes,
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>        And ordained your sleep for rest,
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> 78:10  And ordained the night as a mantle,
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>        And ordained the day for gaining livelihood,
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>        And built above you seven solid heavens,
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>        And placed therein a burning lamp;
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>        And we send down water in abundance from the rain-clouds,
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>        That we may bring froth by it corn and herbs,
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>        And gardens thick with trees.
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>        Lo!  the day of Severance is fixed;
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>        The day when there shall be a blast on the trumpet, and ye shall come in
> crowds,
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>        And the heaven shall be opened and be full of portals,
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> 78:20  And the mountains shall be set in motion, and melt into thin vapour.
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>        Hell truly shall be a place of snares,
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>        The home of transgressors,
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>        To abide therein ages;
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>        No coolness shall they taste therein nor any drink,
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>        Save boiling water and running sores;
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>        Meet recompense!
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>        For they looked not forward to their account;
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>        And they gave the lie to our signs, charging them with falsehood;
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>        But we noted and wrote down all:
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> 78:30  "Taste this then: and we will give you increase of nought but torment."
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>        But, for the God-fearing is a blissful abode,
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>        Enclosed gardens and vineyards;
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>        And damsels with swelling breasts, their peers in age,
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>        And a full cup:
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>        There shall they hear no vain discourse nor any falsehood:P
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>        A recompense from thy Lord - sufficing gift! -
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>        Lord of the heavens and of the earth, and of all that between them lieth
> - the God of Mercy!  But not a word shall they obtain from Him.
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>        On the day whereon the Spirit and the Angels shall be ranged in order,
> they shall not speak:  save he whom the God of Mercy shall permit, and who
> shall say that which is right.
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>        This is the sure day.  Whoso then will, let him take the path of return
> to his Lord.
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> 78:40  Verily, we warn you of a chastisement close at hand:
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>        The day on which a man shall see the deeds which his hands have sent
> before him; and when the unbeliever shall say, "Oh! would I were dust!"
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> — *Sura  78 - The News*