AN-NABA (THE TIDINGS, THE ANNOUNCEMENT)
Total Verses: 40
Revealed At: MAKKA
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
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YUSUFALI: Concerning what are they
disputing?
PICKTHAL: Whereof do they question one
another?
SHAKIR: Of what do they ask one another?
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YUSUFALI: Concerning the Great News,
PICKTHAL: (It is) of the awful tidings,
SHAKIR: About the great event,
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YUSUFALI: About which they cannot agree.
PICKTHAL: Concerning which they are in
disagreement.
SHAKIR: About which they differ?
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YUSUFALI: Verily, they shall soon (come to)
know!
PICKTHAL: Nay, but they will come to know!
SHAKIR: Nay! they shall soon come to know
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YUSUFALI: Verily, verily they shall soon
(come to) know!
PICKTHAL: Nay, again, but they will come to
know!
SHAKIR: Nay! Nay! they shall soon know.
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YUSUFALI: Have We not made the earth as a
wide expanse,
PICKTHAL: Have We not made the earth an
expanse,
SHAKIR: Have We not made the earth an even
expanse?
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YUSUFALI: And the mountains as pegs?
PICKTHAL: And the high hills bulwarks?
SHAKIR: And the mountains as projections
(thereon)?
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YUSUFALI: And (have We not) created you in
pairs,
PICKTHAL: And We have created you in pairs,
SHAKIR: And We created you in pairs,
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YUSUFALI: And made your sleep for rest,
PICKTHAL: And have appointed your sleep for
repose,
SHAKIR: And We made your sleep to be rest
(to you),
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YUSUFALI: And made the night as a covering,
PICKTHAL: And have appointed the night as a
cloak,
SHAKIR: And We made the night to be a
covering,
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YUSUFALI: And made the day as a means of
subsistence?
PICKTHAL: And have appointed the day for
livelihood.
SHAKIR: And We made the day for seeking
livelihood.
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YUSUFALI: And (have We not) built over you
the seven firmaments,
PICKTHAL: And We have built above you seven
strong (heavens),
SHAKIR: And We made above you seven strong
ones,
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YUSUFALI: And placed (therein) a Light of
Splendour?
PICKTHAL: And have appointed a dazzling
lamp,
SHAKIR: And We made a shining lamp,
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YUSUFALI: And do We not send down from the
clouds water in abundance,
PICKTHAL: And have sent down from the rainy
clouds abundant water,
SHAKIR: And We send down from the clouds
water pouring forth abundantly,
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YUSUFALI: That We may produce therewith
corn and vegetables,
PICKTHAL: Thereby to produce grain and
plant,
SHAKIR: That We may bring forth thereby
corn and herbs,
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YUSUFALI: And gardens of luxurious growth?
PICKTHAL: And gardens of thick foliage.
SHAKIR: And gardens dense and luxuriant.
078.017
YUSUFALI: Verily the Day of Sorting out is
a thing appointed,
PICKTHAL: Lo! the Day of Decision is a
fixed time,
SHAKIR: Surely the day of decision is (a
day) appointed:
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YUSUFALI: The Day that the Trumpet shall be
sounded, and ye shall come forth in crowds;
PICKTHAL: A day when the trumpet is blown
and ye come in multitudes,
SHAKIR: The day on which the trumpet shall
be blown so you shall come forth in hosts,
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YUSUFALI: And the heavens shall be opened
as if there were doors,
PICKTHAL: And the heaven is opened and
becometh as gates,
SHAKIR: And the heaven shall be opened so
that it shall be all openings,
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YUSUFALI: And the mountains shall vanish,
as if they were a mirage.
PICKTHAL: And the hills are set in motion
and become as a mirage.
SHAKIR: And the mountains shall be moved
off so that they shall remain a mere semblance.
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YUSUFALI: Truly Hell is as a place of
ambush,
PICKTHAL: Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
SHAKIR: Surely hell lies in wait,
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YUSUFALI: For the transgressors a place of
destination:
PICKTHAL: A home for the rebellious.
SHAKIR: A place of resort for the
inordinate,
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YUSUFALI: They will dwell therein for ages.
PICKTHAL: They will abide therein for ages.
SHAKIR: Living therein for ages.
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YUSUFALI: Nothing cool shall they taste
therein, nor any drink,
PICKTHAL: Therein taste they neither
coolness nor (any) drink
SHAKIR: They shall not taste therein cool
nor drink
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YUSUFALI: Save a boiling fluid and a fluid,
dark, murky, intensely cold,
PICKTHAL: Save boiling water and a
paralysing cold:
SHAKIR: But boiling and intensely cold
water,
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YUSUFALI: A fitting recompense (for them).
PICKTHAL: Reward proportioned (to their
evil deeds).
SHAKIR: Requital corresponding.
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YUSUFALI: For that they used not to fear
any account (for their deeds),
PICKTHAL: For lo! they looked not for a
reckoning;
SHAKIR: Surely they feared not the account,
078.028
YUSUFALI: But they (impudently) treated Our
Signs as false.
PICKTHAL: They called Our revelations false
with strong denial.
SHAKIR: And called Our communications a
lie, giving the lie (to the truth).
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YUSUFALI: And all things have We preserved
on record.
PICKTHAL: Everything have We recorded in a
Book.
SHAKIR: And We have recorded everything in
a book,
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YUSUFALI: "So taste ye (the fruits of your
deeds); for no increase shall We grant you, except in
Punishment."
PICKTHAL: So taste (of that which ye have
earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
SHAKIR: So taste! for We will not add to
you aught but chastisement.
078.031
YUSUFALI: Verily for the Righteous there
will be a fulfilment of (the heart's) desires;
PICKTHAL: Lo! for the duteous is
achievement -
SHAKIR: Surely for those who guard (against
evil) is achievement,
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YUSUFALI: Gardens enclosed, and grapevines;
PICKTHAL: Gardens enclosed and vineyards,
SHAKIR: Gardens and vineyards,
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YUSUFALI: And voluptuous women of equal
age;
PICKTHAL: And voluptuous women of equal
age;
SHAKIR: And voluptuous women of equal age;
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YUSUFALI: And a cup full (to the brim).
PICKTHAL: And a full cup.
SHAKIR: And a pure cup.
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YUSUFALI: No vanity shall they hear
therein, nor Untruth:-
PICKTHAL: There hear they never vain
discourse, nor lying -
SHAKIR: They shall not hear therein any
vain words nor lying.
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YUSUFALI: Recompense from thy Lord, a gift,
(amply) sufficient,
PICKTHAL: Requital from thy Lord - a gift
in payment -
SHAKIR: A reward from your Lord, a gift
according to a reckoning:
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YUSUFALI: (From) the Lord of the heavens
and the earth, and all between, (Allah) Most Gracious: None
shall have power to argue with Him.
PICKTHAL: Lord of the heavens and the
earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with
Whom none can converse.
SHAKIR: The Lord of the heavens and the
earth and what is between them, the Beneficent Allah, they
shall not be able to address Him.
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YUSUFALI: The Day that the Spirit and the
angels will stand forth in ranks, none shall speak except
any who is permitted by (Allah) Most Gracious, and He will
say what is right.
PICKTHAL: On the day when the angels and
the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom
the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.
SHAKIR: The day on which the spirit and the
angels shall stand in ranks; they shall not speak except he
whom the Beneficent Allah permits and who speaks the right
thing.
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YUSUFALI: That Day will be the sure
Reality: Therefore, whoso will, let him take a (straight)
return to his Lord!
PICKTHAL: That is the True Day. So whoso
will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
SHAKIR: That is the sure day, so whoever
desires may take refuge with his Lord.
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YUSUFALI: Verily, We have warned you of a
Penalty near, the Day when man will see (the deeds) which
his hands have sent forth, and the Unbeliever will say, "Woe
unto me! Would that I were (metre) dust!"
PICKTHAL: 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!"
SHAKIR: Surely We have warned you of a
chastisement near at hand: the day when man shall see what
his two hands have sent before, and the unbeliever shall
say: O! would that I were dust!