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An-Naba (The Tidings)

النبإ

40 ayahs · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the Name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.

1. About what are they asking one another? 2. About the great news - 3. That over which they are in disagreement. 4. No! They are going to know. 5. Then, no! They are going to know. 6. Have We not made the earth a resting place? 7. And the mountains as stakes? 8. And We created you in pairs 9. And made your sleep [a means for] rest 10. And made the night as clothing 11. And made the day for livelihood 12. And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] 13. And made [therein] a burning lamp 14. And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water 15. That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation 16. And gardens of entwined growth. 17. Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time - 18. The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes 19. And the heaven is opened and will become gateways 20. And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage. 21. Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait 22. For the transgressors, a place of return, 23. In which they will remain for ages [unending]. 24. They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink 25. Except scalding water and [foul] purulence - 26. An appropriate recompense. 27. Indeed, they were not expecting an account 28. And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial. 29. But all things We have enumerated in writing. 30. "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment." 31. Indeed, for the righteous is attainment - 32. Gardens and grapevines 33. And full-breasted [companions] of equal age 34. And a full cup. 35. No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood - 36. [As] reward from your Lord, [a generous] gift [made due by] account, 37. [From] the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the Most Merciful. They possess not from Him [authority for] speech. 38. The Day that the Spirit and the angels will stand in rows, they will not speak except for one whom the Most Merciful permits, and he will say what is correct. 39. That is the True Day; so he who wills may take to his Lord a [way of] return. 40. Indeed, We have warned you of a near punishment on the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth and the disbeliever will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"

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About Surah An-Naba: place, order and how to read it

Surah An-Naba (The Tidings) is chapter 78 of the Quran and has 40 verses, making it a medium-length surah. It was revealed in Mecca, before the migration to Medina, and it is number 80 in the chronological order of revelation. It falls in juz 30. It occupies 2 pages of the mushaf, from page 582 to page 583.

Where it sits in the mushaf

It is preceded by Surah Al-Mursalat and followed by Surah An-Nazi'at. Like every surah except At-Tawbah, it opens with the Basmalah. This surah contains no verse of prostration.

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