Surah 78
The Announcement
Al-Nabaʾ 📢
Answering the skeptics who mocked the idea of an afterlife, this surah points to the stable mountains and the balance of night and day as proof of an organized creation. Its title is derived from verse 2, which asks what great announcement (the monumental news of resurrection) the critics are arguing about.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
1What are they asking about?
2The momentous announcement
3About which they differ.
4They will find out.
5In the end they will find out.
6Did We not make the earth smooth,
7And make the mountains to keep it stable?
8Did We not create you in pairs,
9Give you sleep for rest,
10The night as a cover,
11And the day for your livelihood?
12Did We not build seven strong [heavens] above you,
13And make a blazing lamp?
14Did We not send water pouring down from the clouds
15To bring forth with it grain, plants,
16And luxuriant gardens?
17A time has been appointed for the Day of Decision:
18A Day when the Trumpet will sound and you will come forward in crowds,
19When the sky will open up like wide portals,
20When the mountains will vanish like a mirage.
21Hell lies in wait,
22A home for oppressors
23To stay in for a long, long time,
24Where they will taste no coolness nor drink
25Except one that is scalding and dark —
26A fitting requital,
27For they did not fear a reckoning,
28And they rejected Our messages as lies.
29We have recorded everything in a Record.
30“Taste this: all you will get from Us is more torment.”
31For those who were aware of God there is supreme fulfilment:
32Private gardens, vineyards,
33Nubile, well-matched companions,
34And an overflowing cup.
35There they will hear no vain or lying talk:
36A reward from your Lord, a fitting gift
37From the Lord of the heavens and earth and everything between, the Lord of Mercy. They will have no authority from Him to speak.
38On the Day when the Spirit and the angels stand in rows, they will not speak except for those to whom the Lord of Mercy gives permission, who will say only what is right.
39That is the Day of Truth. So whoever wishes to do so should take the path that leads to his Lord.
40We have warned you of imminent torment, on the Day when every person will see what their own hands have sent ahead for them, when the disbeliever will say, “If only I were dust!”