{ "number": 78, "slug": "naba", "name": "An-Naba", "arabicName": "النبأ", "meaning": "The Great News", "period": "Makkan", "juz": 30, "tagline": "DAILY GIFTS & THE GREAT NEWS OF RETURN", "overview": "Questions about the great news lead into the familiar gifts of earth, sleep, light, rain, and food. These signs frame the Day of Decision, contrasting denial with refuge and ending with an urgent invitation to return to the Lord.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_78.json" }, { "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=78&verse=9" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=78&verse=15" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=78&verse=20" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=78&verse=27" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=78&verse=34" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=78&verse=37" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=78&verse=39" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=78&verse=1" }, { "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com", "url": "https://quran.com/an-naba/info" }, { "title": "The great news and its first audience · Ma’arif al-Qur’an", "url": "https://quran.com/an-naba/2/tafsirs/en-tafsir-maarif-ul-quran" }, { "title": "The Spirit and permission to speak · Ma’arif al-Qur’an", "url": "https://quran.com/an-naba/38/tafsirs/en-tafsir-maarif-ul-quran" }, { "title": "622 CE · Hijrah period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ", "translation": "About what are they asking one another?" }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "عَنِ ٱلنَّبَإِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ", "translation": "About the great news -" }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ", "translation": "That over which they are in disagreement." }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "No! They are going to know." }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "Then, no! They are going to know." }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِهَٰدًۭا", "translation": "Have We not made the earth a resting place?" }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًۭا", "translation": "And the mountains as stakes?" }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "وَخَلَقْنَٰكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًۭا", "translation": "And We created you in pairs" }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًۭا", "translation": "And made your sleep [a means for] rest" }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًۭا", "translation": "And made the night as clothing" }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلنَّهَارَ مَعَاشًۭا", "translation": "And made the day for livelihood" }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًۭا شِدَادًۭا", "translation": "And constructed above you seven strong [heavens]" }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا سِرَاجًۭا وَهَّاجًۭا", "translation": "And made [therein] a burning lamp" }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمُعْصِرَٰتِ مَآءًۭ ثَجَّاجًۭا", "translation": "And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water" }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "لِّنُخْرِجَ بِهِۦ حَبًّۭا وَنَبَاتًۭا", "translation": "That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation" }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "وَجَنَّٰتٍ أَلْفَافًا", "translation": "And gardens of entwined growth." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَٰتًۭا", "translation": "Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time -" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَتَأْتُونَ أَفْوَاجًۭا", "translation": "The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes" }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "وَفُتِحَتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ أَبْوَٰبًۭا", "translation": "And the heaven is opened and will become gateways" }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَسُيِّرَتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا", "translation": "And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage." }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًۭا", "translation": "Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait" }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "لِّلطَّٰغِينَ مَـَٔابًۭا", "translation": "For the transgressors, a place of return," }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "لَّٰبِثِينَ فِيهَآ أَحْقَابًۭا", "translation": "In which they will remain for ages [unending]." }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًۭا وَلَا شَرَابًا", "translation": "They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink" }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "إِلَّا حَمِيمًۭا وَغَسَّاقًۭا", "translation": "Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -" }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "جَزَآءًۭ وِفَاقًا", "translation": "An appropriate recompense." }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَرْجُونَ حِسَابًۭا", "translation": "Indeed, they were not expecting an account" }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا كِذَّابًۭا", "translation": "And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "وَكُلَّ شَىْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَٰهُ كِتَٰبًۭا", "translation": "But all things We have enumerated in writing." }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "فَذُوقُوا۟ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا", "translation": "\"So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment.\"" }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا", "translation": "Indeed, for the righteous is attainment -" }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "حَدَآئِقَ وَأَعْنَٰبًۭا", "translation": "Gardens and grapevines" }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "وَكَوَاعِبَ أَتْرَابًۭا", "translation": "And full-breasted [companions] of equal age" }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "وَكَأْسًۭا دِهَاقًۭا", "translation": "And a full cup." }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًۭا وَلَا كِذَّٰبًۭا", "translation": "No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood -" }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "جَزَآءًۭ مِّن رَّبِّكَ عَطَآءً حِسَابًۭا", "translation": "[As] reward from your Lord, [a generous] gift [made due by] account," }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "رَّبِّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ۖ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِنْهُ خِطَابًۭا", "translation": "[From] the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the Most Merciful. They possess not from Him [authority for] speech." }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلرُّوحُ وَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ صَفًّۭا ۖ لَّا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَقَالَ صَوَابًۭا", "translation": "The Day that the Spirit and the angels will stand in rows, they will not speak except for one whom the Most Merciful permits, and he will say what is correct." }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۖ فَمَن شَآءَ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ مَـَٔابًا", "translation": "That is the True Day; so he who wills may take to his Lord a [way of] return." }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "إِنَّآ أَنذَرْنَٰكُمْ عَذَابًۭا قَرِيبًۭا يَوْمَ يَنظُرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ ٱلْكَافِرُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ تُرَٰبًۢا", "translation": "Indeed, We have warned you of a near punishment on the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth and the disbeliever will say, \"Oh, I wish that I were dust!\"" } ], "glosses": [ [ "About what", "are they asking one another?" ], [ "About", "the News", "the Great," ], [ "(About) which", "they", "(are) concerning it", "(in) disagreement." ], [ "Nay!", "(soon) they will know." ], [ "Then", "Nay!", "(soon) they will know." ], [ "Have not", "We made", "the earth", "a resting place?" ], [ "And the mountains", "(as) pegs," ], [ "And We created you", "(in) pairs," ], [ "And We made", "your sleep", "(for) rest," ], [ "And We made", "the night", "(as) covering," ], [ "And We made", "the day", "(for) livelihood," ], [ "And We constructed", "over you", "seven", "strong," ], [ "And We placed", "a lamp", "burning," ], [ "And We sent down", "from", "the rain clouds", "water", "pouring abundantly," ], [ "That We may bring forth", "thereby", "grain", "and vegetation," ], [ "And gardens", "(of) thick foliage." ], [ "Indeed,", "(the) Day", "(of) the Judgment", "is", "an appointed time," ], [ "(The) Day", "(in which) shall be blown", "in", "the trumpet", "and you will come forth", "(in) crowds," ], [ "And is opened", "the heaven", "and becomes", "gateways," ], [ "And are moved", "the mountains", "and become", "a mirage." ], [ "Indeed,", "Hell", "is", "lying in wait," ], [ "For the transgressors", "a place of return," ], [ "(They will) be remaining", "therein", "(for) ages." ], [ "Not", "they will taste", "therein", "coolness", "and not", "any drink," ], [ "Except", "scalding water", "and purulence," ], [ "A recompense", "appropriate." ], [ "Indeed, they", "were", "not", "expecting", "an account," ], [ "And they denied", "Our Signs", "(with) denial." ], [ "And every", "thing", "We have enumerated it", "(in) a Book." ], [ "So taste,", "and never", "We will increase you", "except", "(in) punishment." ], [ "Indeed,", "for the righteous", "(is) success," ], [ "Gardens", "and grapevines," ], [ "And splendid companions", "well-matched," ], [ "And a cup", "full." ], [ "Not", "they will hear", "therein", "any vain talk", "and not", "any falsehood," ], [ "(As) a reward", "from", "your Lord,", "a gift", "(according to) account," ], [ "Lord", "(of) the heavens", "and the earth", "and whatever", "(is) between both of them", "the Most Gracious,", "not", "they have power", "from Him", "(to) address." ], [ "(The) Day", "will stand", "the Spirit", "and the Angels", "(in) rows,", "not", "they will speak", "except", "(one) who -", "permits", "[for] him", "the Most Gracious,", "and he (will) say", "(what is) correct." ], [ "That", "(is) the Day", "the True.", "So whoever", "wills", "let him take", "towards", "his Lord", "a return." ], [ "Indeed We", "[We] have warned you", "(of) a punishment", "near", "(the) Day", "will see", "the man", "what", "have sent forth", "his hands", "and will say", "the disbeliever,", "\"O I wish!", "I were", "dust!\"" ] ], "titles": [ "What are they asking about?", "The great news", "A matter of disagreement", "They will come to know", "The warning repeated", "The earth as a place to rest", "Mountains like pegs", "Created in pairs", "Sleep as rest", "Night as a covering", "Day for livelihood", "Seven strong heavens", "The shining lamp", "Rain poured abundantly", "Grain and growing plants", "Gardens thick with life", "The appointed Day of Decision", "A gathering in multitudes", "The sky opened", "Mountains become a mirage", "A place lying in wait", "The return of transgressors", "Ages of consequence", "No cooling relief", "A bitter contrast to refreshment", "A fitting recompense", "An account not expected", "Revelation strongly denied", "Everything recorded", "The consequence encountered", "Success for the mindful", "Gardens and grapevines", "Companionship in the promise", "A cup filled", "Speech without falsehood", "A generous gift", "The Lord of all between", "Permission to speak rightly", "Choose a way of return", "What your own hands sent ahead" ], "notes": [ "The surah begins in the middle of a question shared among people. The listener is drawn into their conversation before its subject is named. This opening turns public discussion into a direct encounter with the message.", "The answer names a momentous announcement. Pickthall’s awful uses an older sense of something inspiring awe; the word aid gives great. The commentary connects the news with resurrection and judgment, which the following passages develop.", "The questioners are not united about the news. Their disagreement becomes part of the chapter’s setting without a list of named speakers. The surah responds by moving from argument toward the familiar world they already inhabit.", "A firm correction replaces uncertainty with the promise of knowing. The verse gives no date for that recognition. Its force lies in the difference between debating an event from a distance and eventually encountering its reality.", "The warning is deliberately repeated. Rather than introducing another event, the repetition gives the same claim added weight. The passage then changes approach, directing attention to the everyday provisions that surround the listener.", "The earth is introduced as a place of living and rest. The question asks the audience to recognize something already received. It begins a sequence of gifts that connects the argument about return with ordinary experience.", "Mountains are described through the image of pegs; Pickthall uses bulwarks, suggesting strong supports. The comparison belongs to the passage’s language of a world made habitable. It is not presented as a modern geological model.", "Human life in pairs joins the landscape in the account of creation. The verse brings the argument close to embodied and relational existence. It invites gratitude for life without making one household arrangement a measure of human worth.", "Sleep is described as rest, interrupting the activities on which people may pride themselves. Even the capacity to work depends on received renewal. The verse makes a familiar nightly experience part of the invitation to reflection.", "Night appears as a covering. The image presents darkness through its sheltering quality within the daily rhythm. Read with sleep and daylight, it gives each part of the cycle a role in supporting life.", "Daylight is connected with livelihood. The passage recognizes ordinary work alongside rest as part of a received order. Its sequence encourages attention to the conditions that make earning, caring, traveling, and daily tasks possible.", "The seven strong heavens widen the view above earthly routines. Pickthall places heavens in parentheses as explanatory wording. The verse does not identify these with modern planets, atmospheric layers, or a scientific diagram supplied by this reader.", "A dazzling lamp adds light and warmth to the scene. The image is read within the surrounding sky and daily cycle. Its vivid simplicity draws attention to a familiar provision without requiring technical language to make the point.", "Abundant rain follows the lamp in the list of gifts. Water is not left as an isolated spectacle: the next verses connect it with grain and growing plants. The sequence leads the reader toward what sustains life.", "The purpose of the water is expressed through the emergence of grain and vegetation. What arrives from the sky becomes nourishment from the ground. The verse connects ordinary food with a dependence that precedes human labor.", "Thick gardens complete the first passage’s scene of provision. Their density conveys flourishing after the rain. The surah names no particular orchard; the illustration gathers the natural motifs without turning them into a claimed historical site.", "The Day of Decision is described as appointed. A fixed time is affirmed, but its date is not revealed to the listener. The surah moves from recurring daily patterns to the future event about which people were disputing.", "The trumpet and the arrival of multitudes introduce a gathering beyond ordinary assemblies. The individual listener is included in the address. The verse offers a religious future scene, not a dated description of an army or festival.", "The opened sky becomes gates in the imagery of transformation. What seemed continuous and enclosing is changed. The verse follows the gathering and prepares the reversal of the mountains’ apparent permanence in the next line.", "Mountains that seemed solid become like a mirage. The contrast recalls their earlier place as pegs within the present world. The same landscape can therefore support reflection on both received stability and its ultimate impermanence.", "Hell is described as lying in wait. The image introduces the first outcome after the transformation of sky and mountains. Its moral explanation comes in the following verses, so the warning should be read as a connected passage.", "The destination is linked to transgression. This moral description identifies the issue before the details of suffering are given. The verse does not name a modern population or authorize readers to determine a particular person’s final fate.", "An extended duration is expressed through ages. The wording gives weight to consequence without a count of earthly years. This reader does not turn the term into a numerical schedule or a prediction about when punishment ends.", "The absence of coolness and drink reverses the earlier scenes of sustaining rain. Relief normally expected from the world is unavailable here. The contrast makes the account especially vivid for a reader imagining thirst and heat.", "Pickthall gives boiling water and paralysing cold, while the Corpus aid renders the second term as purulence. The difference reflects interpretive translation choices. Both are preserved visibly rather than blending them into a new verse translation.", "The consequence is described as fitting the deeds. This directs attention from sensation to justice and accountability. Pickthall’s explanatory parenthesis makes that relation explicit in English, linking the warning with the conduct described next.", "The passage names an expectation beneath the conduct: no reckoning was anticipated. The issue is not only a statement of belief but its practical effect. Choices change when a person assumes there will be no account.", "Strong denial of the revelations continues the explanation. The repeated form emphasizes the intensity of the rejection. The verse belongs with the preceding expectation of no reckoning and the following assertion that nothing escapes the record.", "Everything is counted in a written record. The statement answers the assumption that actions disappear without consequence. An imagined book is a visual aid to the theme, not a claim to reproduce the actual unseen record.", "The warning reaches a direct address to those encountering its consequence. Its severity closes the first outcome before the chapter turns to hope. Read in sequence, the shift makes the contrast with refuge especially pronounced.", "Success is now promised to those who are mindful of the Lord. Pickthall’s duteous is an older word for the dutiful. The verse opens a new outcome and prevents the chapter from ending its account with warning alone.", "Gardens and grapevines provide the first images of that promise. They echo the flourishing growth described earlier in the chapter. The scene is illustrative of abundance and welcome, without assigning the Garden a location on earth.", "Pickthall names companions, while the word aid emphasizes their being well matched. This verse belongs to the description of welcome and abundance. The reader retains both translation choices without adding an invented biography or appearance for those promised.", "A full cup adds to the sense of generous provision. Its brief mention follows gardens and companionship before the account turns to speech. The passage’s good includes both what is received and the character of shared life.", "The absence of empty talk and lying gives the promise a social and moral quality. Peace is more than scenery or possessions. The verse invites reflection on how honest, worthwhile speech can shape relationships even now.", "The recompense is also called a gift from the Lord. Holding these words together prevents the promise from sounding like a merely commercial exchange. The passage emphasizes both meaningful conduct and generosity beyond human possession.", "The Lord of heavens, earth, and what lies between is named the Beneficent. The statement about speech must be read with the next verse, where permission is specified. No one possesses an independent claim over that authority.", "The Spirit and angels stand in ordered ranks, and speech depends on permission and truth. Commentary records different identifications of the Spirit, including Gabriel. This reader preserves that distinction and depicts neither the divine nor unseen beings.", "The day is affirmed as real, followed by an invitation to seek a way of return. The listener is addressed while response is still possible. The verse turns the future account into a present question of direction.", "The closing scene brings the account to what a person’s own hands have sent ahead. The wish to be dust expresses deep regret within the warning. Its urgency invites attention to present conduct rather than speculation about a date." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 16, "title": "The great news and the gifts around us", "summary": "Questions about resurrection lead to earth, mountains, human life, sleep, daylight, rain, and flourishing gardens.", "reflection": "Which familiar gift becomes easier to appreciate when you pause to consider how it sustains you?" }, { "start": 17, "end": 30, "title": "The Day of Decision", "summary": "A gathering follows the transformation of sky and mountains, and the denial of any account meets the reality of recorded deeds.", "reflection": "What choice would change if you considered its consequences beyond immediate comfort?" }, { "start": 31, "end": 40, "title": "Refuge, truthful speech, and a way of return", "summary": "Gardens and generous provision contrast with the warning; the final address invites a return before regret.", "reflection": "What would a life shaped by truthful speech and mindful action look like this week?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · The Makkan mission · questions about resurrection", "year": 622, "body": "The chapter introduction places An-Naba in the Makkan mission. Its first audience disputed the coming account; an exact revelation year is not assigned. The year 622 marks the Hijrah boundary of the Makkan period; it is not an assigned revelation year for this passage.", "source": "https://quran.com/an-naba/info" }, { "title": "Discussion among the first listeners", "year": null, "body": "Ma’arif al-Qur’an reports the setting of people discussing and disputing the great news. This is commentary about the opening’s context, not a dated meeting with a recoverable attendance list.", "source": "https://quran.com/an-naba/2/tafsirs/en-tafsir-maarif-ul-quran" }, { "title": "The Day of Decision · appointed, date undisclosed", "year": null, "body": "Verse 17 affirms an appointed time. The chapter supplies no calendar date, and its images are not linked here to a current natural event.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/078.htm" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · the setting of the questions", "body": "Makkah provides the broad first-audience setting from the chapter introduction. The questions in the opening are not tied to a verified street, council room, or building.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/an-naba/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "living-landscape", "name": "Earth, mountains, and gardens", "body": "The first passage moves across familiar features of a world that supports life. The landscape brings its rain, grain, and thick growth together imaginatively; no single farm or valley is named.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/078.htm", "image": 0 }, { "id": "promised-gardens", "name": "The promised gardens · beyond earthly coordinates", "body": "Verses 31–36 use gardens, vines, companionship, and a full cup to describe the promised outcome. The image is contemplative and is not a mapped location or a literal survey of the unseen.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/078.htm", "image": 2 } ], "people": [ { "id": "questioners", "title": "Those debating the great news", "body": "The opening describes people questioning one another and disagreeing. It supplies no individual names. The commentary situates that discussion among the first Makkan audience.", "verse": 1, "url": "https://quran.com/an-naba/2/tafsirs/en-tafsir-maarif-ul-quran", "label": "Read the contextual commentary" }, { "id": "transgressors", "title": "Those who expected no reckoning", "body": "Verses 21–30 connect the warning with transgression, denial, and the assumption that no account would follow. These are moral descriptions, not a list of identifiable modern people.", "verse": 27 }, { "id": "mindful", "title": "The mindful · recipients of the promise", "body": "The positive outcome begins with those described as mindful or dutiful. The passage includes generous provision and freedom from falsehood, connecting hope with the quality of life and speech.", "verse": 31 }, { "id": "spirit", "title": "The Spirit and angels · an unseen assembly", "body": "Verse 38 names the Spirit beside the angels. Ma’arif al-Qur’an records more than one interpretation, including Gabriel. The entry retains that range rather than claiming an observed appearance.", "verse": 38, "url": "https://quran.com/an-naba/38/tafsirs/en-tafsir-maarif-ul-quran", "label": "Read the interpretive discussion" } ], "history": [ { "title": "A Makkan surah opening Juz 30", "body": "The Arabic source places all forty verses in Juz 30. The chapter introduction gives a Makkan classification; its position in the Quran is distinct from an exact chronological date of revelation.", "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_78.json" }, { "title": "What is the great news?", "body": "Ma’arif al-Qur’an interprets the momentous news as resurrection and judgment. This reading follows the chapter’s movement from disputed news to an appointed Day of Decision.", "source": "https://quran.com/an-naba/2/tafsirs/en-tafsir-maarif-ul-quran" }, { "title": "Present provision and future accountability", "body": "The sequence connects everyday rest, light, rain, and nourishment with the question of return. Its argument asks the reader to consider a familiar world before approaching an unfamiliar future.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/078.htm" }, { "title": "Permission and truthful speech", "body": "The final assembly speaks only with permission and right words. The earlier promise also excludes falsehood, giving truthful speech a place both in the described reward and in the solemn closing scene.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/078.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Makkan; no exact revelation year or named gathering is asserted. The chapter opens Juz 30 in the received Quran order. The Day of Decision has no disclosed calendar date, and future gardens and unseen beings are not mapped or portrayed as observed realities." }