Chapter 78. The Report, an-Naba’

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78.0 In The Name Of YHWH: The Almighty, The Merciful.

78:1 What exactly is left to question among them?

78:2 The Good News or the Horrific News?

78:3 Which is it wherein they disagree?

78:4 Nay. Deep down they know and will see!

78:5 Then indeed

they will come to know for certain!

78:6 Yea and have We not made the Earth a resting place

78:7 and the mountains firm stakes with bottoms like pegs

78:8 and Created you in heterosexual pairs

78:9 and made your sleep restful

78:10 and made the night like a blanket

78:11 and the day for Goodly living.

78:12 And did We build above you seven great ones

78:13 and set therein a blazing light

78:14 and sent down cascading rains from clouds

78:15 bringing forth grains and plants

78:16 in luxuriant gardens?

78:17 Yea and the Day of Decision is an appointed time.

78:18 The Day the trumpet is blown and you come in units

78:19 and the sky is opened as gates

78:20 and mountains are set in motion looking as if a mirage.

78:21 Yea it is then that Hell is lying in wait!

78:22 That is the Journeys’ End for the defiant and the fools.

78:23 They will forever long for a final death

78:24 never experiencing shade nor satisfying drink

78:25 only scalding Punishment and liquids of filth

78:26 will be their recompense.

78:27 For they yearned for no accounting

78:28 and they denied Our Proofs defiantly

78:29 but We have their ledgers fully detailed

78:30 so taste it!

And We will increase you in nothing except Punishment.

78:31 But for those of Wise Fear is a place of long sought security

78:32 with fertile gardens and grapevines

78:33 and splendid companions well matched

78:34 your cups overflowing.

78:35 Hearing therein neither vain speech nor lies.

78:36 Yea it is the Reward From thy Lord

a Gift

and a Reckoning.

78:37 Lord of the Heavens and the Earth and Everything in them.

The Almighty

against Whom none can argue.

78:38 The Day the spirit Gabriel and the angels stand in ranks

speaking not

until The Almighty Grants Permission to whom He Wills

to say what is True in bearing witness. 

78:39 That is the Day of Unending Truth

and whoever wills well will be well pleased

to see their Lord at their Journeys’ End.

78:40 Hence We warn you of this Punishment drawing near

the Day mankind will look upon what habits they had set in motion before

and the fools will say:

If only I were dust!

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