78-1 : In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Whereof do they question one another ?

78-2 : (It is) of the awful tidings,

78-3 : Concerning which they are in disagreement.

78-4 : Nay, but they will come to know!

78-5 : Nay, again, but they will come to know!

78-6 : Have We not made the earth an expanse,

78-7 : And the high hills bulwarks ?

78-8 : And We have created you in pairs,

78-9 : And have appointed your sleep for repose,

78-10 : And have appointed the night as a cloak,

78-11 : And have appointed the day for livelihood.

78-12 : And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),

78-13 : And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

78-14 : And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,

78-15 : Thereby to produce grain and plant,

78-16 : And gardens of thick foliage.

78-17 : Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

78-18 : A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,

78-19 : And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

78-20 : And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.

78-21 : Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

78-22 : A home for the rebellious.

78-23 : They will abide therein for ages.

78-24 : Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

78-25 : Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

78-26 : Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

78-27 : For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

78-28 : They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

78-29 : Everything have We recorded in a Book.

78-30 : So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.

78-31 : Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

78-32 : Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

78-33 : And maidens for companions,

78-34 : And a full cup.

78-35 : There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

78-36 : Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -

78-37 : Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.

78-38 : On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.

78-39 : That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.

78-40 : 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!"