Surah An-Naba

عَمَّيَتَسَآءَلُونَ

ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another?

عَنِٱلنَّبَإِٱلْعَظِيمِ

About the awesome tiding [of resurrection],

ٱلَّذِىهُمْفِيهِمُخْتَلِفُونَ

on which they [so utterly] disagree.

كَلَّاسَيَعْلَمُونَ

Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]!

ثُمَّكَلَّاسَيَعْلَمُونَ

And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand!

أَلَمْنَجْعَلِٱلْأَرْضَمِهَٰدًۭا

HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you],

وَٱلْجِبَالَأَوْتَادًۭا

and the mountains [its] pegs?

وَخَلَقْنَٰكُمْأَزْوَٰجًۭا

And We have created you in pairs;

وَجَعَلْنَانَوْمَكُمْسُبَاتًۭا

and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death

وَجَعَلْنَاٱلَّيْلَلِبَاسًۭا

and made the night [its] cloak

وَجَعَلْنَاٱلنَّهَارَمَعَاشًۭا

and made the day [a symbol of] life.

وَبَنَيْنَافَوْقَكُمْسَبْعًۭاشِدَادًۭا

And We have built above you seven firmaments,

وَجَعَلْنَاسِرَاجًۭاوَهَّاجًۭا

and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour.

وَأَنزَلْنَامِنَٱلْمُعْصِرَٰتِمَآءًۭثَجَّاجًۭا

And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance,

لِّنُخْرِجَبِهِۦحَبًّۭاوَنَبَاتًۭا

so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs,

وَجَنَّٰتٍأَلْفَافًا

and gardens dense with follage.

إِنَّيَوْمَٱلْفَصْلِكَانَمِيقَٰتًۭا

VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time:

يَوْمَيُنفَخُفِىٱلصُّورِفَتَأْتُونَأَفْوَاجًۭا

the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes;

وَفُتِحَتِٱلسَّمَآءُفَكَانَتْأَبْوَٰبًۭا

and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates;

وَسُيِّرَتِٱلْجِبَالُفَكَانَتْسَرَابًا

and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage.