Surah An-Naba, Ayah 21-40 — Word by Word
النبإ
The Tidings
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
inna jahannama kānat mir'ṣādan
Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait
lilṭṭāghīna maāban
For the transgressors, a place of return,
lābithīna fīhā aḥqāban
In which they will remain for ages [unending].
lā yadhūqūna fīhā bardan walā sharāban
They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink.
illā ḥamīman waghassāqan
Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -
jazāan wifāqan
An appropriate recompense.
innahum kānū lā yarjūna ḥisāban
Indeed, they were not expecting an account
wakadhabū biāyātinā kidhāban
And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.
wakulla shayin aḥṣaynāhu kitāban
But all things We have enumerated in writing.
fadhūqū falan nazīdakum illā ʿadhāban
"So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment."
inna lil'muttaqīna mafāzan
Indeed, for the righteous is attainment -
ḥadāiqa wa-aʿnāban
Gardens and grapevines.
wakawāʿiba atrāban
And full-breasted [companions] of equal age.
wakasan dihāqan
And a full cup.
lā yasmaʿūna fīhā laghwan walā kidhāban
No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood -
jazāan min rabbika ʿaṭāan ḥisāban
[As] reward from your Lord, [a generous] gift [made due by] account,
rabbi l-samāwāti wal-arḍi wamā baynahumā l-raḥmāni lā yamlikūna min'hu khiṭāban
[From] the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the Most Merciful. They possess not from Him [authority for] speech.
yawma yaqūmu l-rūḥu wal-malāikatu ṣaffan lā yatakallamūna illā man adhina lahu l-raḥmānu waqāla ṣawāban
The Day that the Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] and the angels will stand in rows, they will not speak except for one whom the Most Merciful permits, and he will say what is correct.
dhālika l-yawmu l-ḥaqu faman shāa ittakhadha ilā rabbihi maāban
That is the True [i.e., certain] Day; so he who wills may take to his Lord a [way of] return.
innā andharnākum ʿadhāban qarīban yawma yanẓuru l-maru mā qaddamat yadāhu wayaqūlu l-kāfiru yālaytanī kuntu turāban
Indeed, We have warned you of an impending punishment on the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth and the disbeliever will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"