The Announcement · Surah 78

Whereof do they question one another

(It is) of the awful tidings

Concerning which they are in disagreement

Nay, but they will come to know

Nay, again, but they will come to know

Have We not made the earth an expanse

And the high hills bulwarks

And We have created you in pairs

And have appointed your sleep for repose

And have appointed the night as a cloak

And have appointed the day for livelihood

And We have built above you seven strong (heavens)

And have appointed a dazzling lamp

And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water

Thereby to produce grain and plant

And gardens of thick foliage

Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time

A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes

And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates

And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage

Lo! hell lurketh in ambush

A home for the rebellious

They will abide therein for ages

Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

Save boiling water and a paralysing cold

Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds)

For lo! they looked not for a reckoning

They called Our revelations false with strong denial

Everything have We recorded in a Book

So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment

Lo! for the duteous is achievement

Gardens enclosed and vineyards

And voluptuous women of equal age

And a full cup

There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying

Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment

Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse

On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right

That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord

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