An-Naba or The News (Arabic: النبأ, an-nabaʼ, also known as "The Tidings", "The Announcement") is the seventy-eighth chapter (surah) of the Quran, with forty ayat or verses.

Summary

The first twenty verses discuss the wonders of the worldly creation (the earth, plants, the peace of night, the mountains and rain); the final twenty verses are about the eternal wonders and horrors of the next world, with the raging sinner (the Arabic triliteral root TGY "taagheena" is used) being punished starkly opposed with the rewarding of dutiful believers in paradise. The Arabic triliteral root WQY "muttaqeena" is employed as a poetic parataxis to TGY).[citation needed]

Ayat (Verses)

1-5 Unbelievers shall yet learn the truth of the resurrection

6-16 God the Creator and Preserver of all things

17-20 Judgment-day scenes described

21-30 The recompense of unbelievers in hell described

31-37 The joys of believers in Paradise described

37-38 No intercessor except by God’s permission

39-40 Sinners exhorted to flee from the day of wrath

Hadith

External links

  • The full text of The Tidings at Wikisource, 1930 translation by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
  • , 2020 Mustafa Khattab translation