The Tidings

The Koran






078.001
Whereof do they question one another ?

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(It is) of the awful tidings,

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Concerning which they are in disagreement.

078.004
Nay, but they will come to know!

078.005
Nay, again, but they will come to know!

078.006
Have We not made the earth an expanse,

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And the high hills bulwarks ?

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And We have created you in pairs,

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And have appointed your sleep for repose,

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And have appointed the night as a cloak,

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And have appointed the day for livelihood.

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

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And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

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And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,

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Thereby to produce grain and plant,

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And gardens of thick foliage.

078.017
Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

078.018
A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,

078.019
And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

078.020
And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.

078.021
Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

078.022
A home for the rebellious.

078.023
They will abide therein for ages.

078.024
Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

078.025
Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

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Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

078.027
For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

078.028
They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

078.029
Everything have We recorded in a Book.

078.030
So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.

078.031
Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

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Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

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And maidens for companions,

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And a full cup.

078.035
There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

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Requital from thy Lord—a gift in payment -

078.037
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.

078.038
On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.

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

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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!"