The Qur'an · Pickthall Translation

78. An-Naba

Pickthall translation · 40 verses

Surah An-Naba (78) of the Holy Qur'an, in the respected public domain Pickthall translation. It opens: “Whereof do they question one another” — the complete text of all 40 verses is below, free to read online, no account needed.

1Whereof do they question one another

2(It is) of the awful tidings

3Concerning which they are in disagreement

4Nay, but they will come to know

5Nay, again, but they will come to know

6Have We not made the earth an expanse

7And the high hills bulwarks

8And We have created you in pairs

9And have appointed your sleep for repose

10And have appointed the night as a cloak

11And have appointed the day for livelihood

12And We have built above you seven strong (heavens)

13And have appointed a dazzling lamp

14And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water

15Thereby to produce grain and plant

16And 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

21Lo! hell lurketh in ambush

22A home for the rebellious

23They will abide therein for ages

24Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

25Save boiling water and a paralysing cold

26Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds)

27For lo! they looked not for a reckoning

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

31Lo! for the duteous is achievement

32Gardens enclosed and vineyards

33And voluptuous women of equal age

34And a full cup

35There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying

36Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment

37Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse

38On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right

39That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord

40Lo! 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

40 verses · Pickthall translation (public domain)

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