An-Naba or The News (, ''an-nabaʼ'',
also known as "The Tidings", "The Announcement") is the
seventy-eighth chapter (
surah
A ''surah'' (; ; ) is an Arabic word meaning 'chapter' in the Quran. There are 114 ''suwar'' in the Quran, each divided into ayah, verses (). The ''suwar'' are of unequal length; the shortest ''surah'' (al-Kawthar) has only three verses, while ...
) of the
Quran
The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...
, 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
The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or " radicals" (hence the term consonantal root). Such abstract consonantal roots are used in the formation of actual words by adding the vowel ...
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).
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
In religion and folklore, paradise is a place of everlasting happiness, delight, and bliss. Paradisiacal notions are often laden with pastoral imagery, and may be cosmogonical, eschatological, or both, often contrasted with the miseries of human ...
described
:37-38 No
intercessor except by God’s permission
:39-40 Sinners exhorted to flee from the day of wrath
Hadith
* Abu Ishaq narrated from
Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl
Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl ibn Hisham (; –634 or 636) was an opponent-turned companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a military commander in the Ridda wars and the Muslim conquest of Syria. In the latter campaign, he was killed fighting the By ...
, from
Ibn Abbas
ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās (; c. 619 – 687 CE), also known as Ibn ʿAbbās, was one of the cousins of the Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophet Muhammad. He is considered to be the greatest Tafsir#Conditions, mufassir of the Quran, Qur'an. ...
who said: "
Abu Bakr
Abd Allah ibn Abi Quhafa (23 August 634), better known by his ''Kunya (Arabic), kunya'' Abu Bakr, was a senior Sahaba, companion, the closest friend, and father-in-law of Muhammad. He served as the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, ruli ...
ay Allah be pleased with himsaid: 'O Messenger of Allah! You have become gray.' He said: 'I have gone gray from
Hud (surah),
Al-Waqi'a,
Al-Mursalat
Al-Mursalāt (, "The Emissaries", "Winds Sent Forth") is the 77th chapter (sura) of the Quran, with 50 verses. The chapter takes its name from the word Al-Mursalāt in the first verse. The subject is seen to provide evidence that it was reveale ...
and `Amma Yatasa'alun (An-Naba) and Idhash-Shamsu Kuwwirat (
At-Takwir
At-Takwīr (, literally "The Turning Into a Sphere") is the eighty-first chapter (''sura'') of the Qur'an, with 29 verses (''ayat''). It tells about the signs of the coming of the day of judgement in Islam.
Summary
*1-14 The terrible signs of th ...
).'"
[ Jami` at-Tirmidhi English reference: Vol. 5, Book 44, Hadith 3297
Arabic reference: Book 47, Hadith 3609]
References
External links
Quran 78 Sahih International translation
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