English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The Inevitable Calamity

What is the Inevitable Calamity

And what shall make thee know that which the Inevitable Calamity is

The tribes of Thamud and 'Aad belied the Striking Day

As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the outburst

And as for 'Aad they were destroyed by a wind, furious. roaring

To which He subjected them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so that thou mightest have seen men during it lying prostrate, as though they were stumps of palms ruined

Beholdest thou any of them remaining

And Fir'awn and those before him and the overturned cities committed sin

Verily We! when the water rose, We bare you upon the traversing ark

That We might make it Unto you an admonition, and thot it might be retained by the retaining ears

And when the Trumpet shall sound a single blast

And the earth and the mountains shall be borne and the twain shall be crushed with a single crash

Then on that Day shall happen the Event

And the heaven shall be rent in sunder, it on that Day shall be frail

And the angels shall be on the borders thereof; and on that Day eight shall bear over them the Throne of thy Lord

The Day whereon ye shall be mustered nothing hidden by you shall be hidden

Then as to him who will be vouchsafed his book in his right hand, he shall say: here! read my book

Verily I was sure that I should be a meeter of my reckoning

Then he shall be in a life well-pleasing

In a Garden lofty

Clusters whereof shall be near at hand

Eat and drink with benefit for that which ye sent on beforehand in dayspast

Then as to him who shall be vouchsafed his book in his left hand, he shall say: Oh! would that I had not been vouchsafed my book

Nor known whatever was my reckoning

Oh, would that it had been the ending

My riches have: availed me not

There hath perished from me my authority

Lay hold of him and chain him

Then in the Scorch roast him

Then, in a chain whereof the length is seventy Cubits, bind him

Verily he was wont not to believe in Allah, the Mighty

Nor he urged on others the feeding of the poor

Wherefore for him here this Day there is no friend

Nor any food save filthy corruption

None shall eat it but the sinners

I swear by that which ye see

And that which ye see not

That it is surely the speech brought by messenger honourable

And it is not the speech of a poet. Little it is that ye believe

Nor is it the speech of a sooth- sayer. Little are ye admonished

It is a Revelation from the Lord of the worlds

And if he had forged concerning us some discourses

We surely had lain hold of him by the right hand

And then severed his life-vein

And not one of you would have withheld us from punishing him

And verily it is an Admonition Unto the God-fearing

And verily We! We know that some among you are beliers thereof

And verily it shall be an occasion of anguish Unto the infidels

And verily it is the truth of assured certainty

Wherefore hallow thou the name of thy Lord, the Mighty