The Tidings (Al-Naba’)
Verses 18-30 GROUP_1554 78.18-30
18
يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِي الصُّورِ فَتَأْتُونَ أَفْوَاجًا
On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves,
19
وَفُتِحَتِ السَّمَاء فَكَانَتْ أَبْوَابًا
and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates,
20
وَسُيِّرَتِ الْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا
and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage.
21
إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا
Surely, Hell lies in wait,
22
لِلْطَّاغِينَ مَآبًا
a home for the transgressors,
23
لَابِثِينَ فِيهَا أَحْقَابًا
where they shall remain for ages,
24
لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًا وَلَا شَرَابًا
and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink
25
إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا
save boiling water and a stinking fluid—
26
جَزَاء وِفَاقًا
a fitting requital,
27
إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا لَا يَرْجُونَ حِسَابًا
for they never expected to be called to account,
28
وَكَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا كِذَّابًا
and they rejected outright Our signs;
29
وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَاهُ كِتَابًا
but We have recorded everything in a Book.
30
فَذُوقُوا فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا
[So We shall say], ‘Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!’
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Commentary
(a) In this world arrogance appears pleasurable to a man because it satisfies his ego. But, when man’s ego appears in its real shape in the Hereafter, the position will be entirely different. Whatever seemed delightful in the world will become a horrible torture for him in the Hereafter.