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Surah an-Naba' (The News ) 78 : 40

إِنَّآ أَنذَرْنَٰكُمْ عَذَابًا قَرِيبًا يَوْمَ يَنظُرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ ٱلْكَافِرُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ تُرَٰبًۢا

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
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!"

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(78:40:1)
(78:40:2)
andharnākum
[We] have warned you
(78:40:3)
ʿadhāban
(of) a punishment
(78:40:4)
qarīban
near
(78:40:5)
yawma
(the) Day
(78:40:6)
yanẓuru
will see
(78:40:7)
l-maru
the man
(78:40:8)
(78:40:9)
qaddamat
have sent forth
(78:40:10)
yadāhu
his hands
(78:40:11)
wayaqūlu
and will say
(78:40:12)
l-kāfiru
the disbeliever
(78:40:13)
(78:40:14)
kuntu
I were
(78:40:15)
turāban
dust

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Explanatory Note

The warning is stern enough to make the drunken awake: “We have forewarned you of an imminent scourge.” It will not be long coming, for man’s life is but a short period. The scourge is so fearful that the unbelievers, when faced with it, will send up that great cry expressing the wish that they had never lived: “On the day when man will look on what his hands have forwarded and the unbeliever will cry: ‘Would that I were dust!”

This is the cry of one who is in great distress, who feels ashamed for what he has been and what he has done. He feels that it is better not to be, or to be something as worthless as dust, than to witness such a fearful occasion. The terrible position of the unbelievers is the subject of the questions and doubts they raise concerning that fateful tiding.

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The themes of all the Surahs, from Surah 75: al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) to Surah 79: an-Nazi’at (The Extractors), closely resemble one another and all these seem to have been revealed in the earliest period at Makkah.

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