سورة النّبَإِ
Surah Al-Naba’ 78:21
The Important Anouncement · Verse 21 of 40
إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا
Abdul Mannan Omar
Surely, only Gehenna shall be in wait (for those who deny the truth).
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Truly Hell is as a place of ambush,
Ahmed Ali
Certainly Hell lies in wait,
12 more translations
Ali Unal
Surely Hell lies as a place for surveillance,
Daryabadi
Verily the Hell is an ambuscade:
Faridul Haque
Indeed hell is lying in ambush.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Surely hell lies in wait,
Maulvi Sher Ali
Surely, Hell lies in ambush,
Muhammad Asad
[On that Day,] verily, hell will lie in wait [for those who deny the truth]
Muhammad Musin Khan
Truly, Hell is a place of ambush,
Muhammad Pickthall
Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
Muhammad Sarwar
Hell will lie in wait (for its prey).
Muhammed ali Shakir
Surely hell lies in wait,
Rashad Khalifa
Gehenna is inevitable.
Shabbir Ahmed
Hell lurks in ambush.
Commentary 78:21-22 Mirsâd مِرْصَاد is a closed nursing home. This is the description of hell where the sinners will undergo their treatment. A “nursing home” is the…
On 78:21–22
إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا
78:21-22 Mirsâd مِرْصَاد is a closed nursing home. This is the description of hell where the sinners will undergo their treatment. A “nursing home” is the concept conveyed about hell. Rûmî explains the concept of punishment in fire in the following words in his Mathnawî: “Look at the pea in the pot, how it leaps up when it feels the fire. While boiling it rises to the top and cries, Why are you setting fire under me? No! Boil nicely now, and do not try to leap away from one who has made the fire. It is not because you are hateful to him that he boils you, He boils you so that you gain flavour, and become nutritious and mingle with essential spirit. This affliction is not because you are despised. When you were green and fresh, you were drinking the water in the garden, that water drinking was for the sake of this fire.”