The Tidings (Al-Naba’)
Verses 1-17 GROUP_1553 78.1-17
1
عَمَّ يَتَسَاءلُونَ
What are they asking each other about?
2
عَنِ النَّبَإِ الْعَظِيمِ
About the awesome tidings [of resurrection]
3
الَّذِي هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ
concerning which they are in disagreement!
4
كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ
But they will soon come to know.
5
ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ
Surely, they will soon find out the truth!
6
أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ مِهَادًا
Have We not spread the earth like a bed,
7
وَالْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا
and raised the mountains like supporting poles?
8
وَخَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا
We created you in pairs,
9
وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا
and gave you repose in sleep,
10
وَجَعَلْنَا اللَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا
and the night as a cover,
11
وَجَعَلْنَا النَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا
and made the day for earning a livelihood.
12
وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًا شِدَادًا
We have built above you seven mighty heavens,
13
وَجَعَلْنَا سِرَاجًا وَهَّاجًا
and We have set therein a glowing lamp.
14
وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ الْمُعْصِرَاتِ مَاء ثَجَّاجًا
From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance,
15
لِنُخْرِجَ بِهِ حَبًّا وَنَبَاتًا
so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants,
16
وَجَنَّاتٍ أَلْفَافًا
and gardens dense with foliage.
17
إِنَّ يَوْمَ الْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَاتًا
Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time.
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Commentary
(a) The Arab people were not disbelievers in the Hereafter. But they did not believe in a Hereafter of such a nature as is mentioned in the Quran. In other words, they doubted that by rejecting Muhammad, they would face degradation and humiliation in the world of the Hereafter. (b) The physical events of the present world are indicative of the nature of the Hereafter. The ‘present’ of our world implies that it should have a ‘future’ consistent with it. Considered from this point of view, it must be accepted that there is going to be a great end to match a great beginning. This world is not going to finish without a befitting end.