# Sura  78 - The Tidings

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> 78. an-Naba': The Tidings
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> 1 Whereof do they question one another ? 
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> 2 (It is) of the awful tidings, 
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> 3 Concerning which they are in disagreement. 
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> 4 Nay, but they will come to know! 
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> 5 Nay, again, but they will come to know! 
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> 6 Have We not made the earth an expanse, 
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> 7 And the high hills bulwarks ? 
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> 8 And We have created you in pairs, 
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> 9 And have appointed your sleep for repose, 
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> 10 And have appointed the night as a cloak, 
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> 11 And have appointed the day for livelihood. 
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> 12 And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), 
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> 13 And have appointed a dazzling lamp, 
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> 14 And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, 
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> 15 Thereby to produce grain and plant, 
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> 16 And gardens of thick foliage. 
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> 17 Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, 
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> 18 A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, 
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> 19 And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, 
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> 20 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. 
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> 21 Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, 
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> 22 A home for the rebellious. 
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> 23 They will abide therein for ages. 
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> 24 Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink 
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> 25 Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: 
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> 26 Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). 
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> 27 For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; 
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> 28 They called Our revelations false with strong denial. 
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> 29 Everything have We recorded in a Book. 
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> 30 So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. 
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> 31 Lo! for the duteous is achievement - 
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> 32 Gardens enclosed and vineyards, 
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> 33 And maidens for companions, 
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> 34 And a full cup. 
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> 35 There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying - 
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> 36 Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment - 
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> 37 Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse. 
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> 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. 
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> 39 That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord. 
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> 40 Lo! 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!"
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> — *Sura  78 - The Tidings*