Surah An-Naba (The Announcement)

40 Verse(s) • Surah number 78 • Meccan

إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا


21. Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait

لِلطَّاغِينَ مَآبًا


22. For the transgressors, a place of return,

لَابِثِينَ فِيهَا أَحْقَابًا


23. In which they will remain for ages [unending].

لَا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًا وَلَا شَرَابًا


24. They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink

إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا


25. Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -

جَزَاءً وِفَاقًا


26. An appropriate recompense.

إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا لَا يَرْجُونَ حِسَابًا


27. Indeed, they were not expecting an account

وَكَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا كِذَّابًا


28. And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.

وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَاهُ كِتَابًا


29. But all things We have enumerated in writing.

فَذُوقُوا فَلَنْ نَزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا


30. "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment."