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English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

Translation by Aisha Bewley — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:1

Verse 2 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:2

What is the Undeniable

Verse 3 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:3

What will convey to you what the Undeniable is

Verse 4 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:4

Thamud and ´Ad denied the Crushing Blow

Verse 5 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:5

Thamud were destroyed by the Deafening Blast

Verse 6 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:6

´Ad were destroyed by a savage howling wind

Verse 7 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:7

Allah subjected them to it for seven whole nights and eight whole days without a break. You could see the people flattened in their homes just like the hollow stumps of uprooted palms

Verse 8 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:8

Do you see any remnant of them left

Verse 9 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:9

Pharaoh and those before him and the Overturned Cities made a great mistake

Verse 10 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:10

They disobeyed the Messenger of their Lord so He seized them in an ever-tightening grip

Verse 11 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:11

When the waters rose We carried you in the ship

Verse 12 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:12

to make it a reminder for you and something to be retained by retentive ears

Verse 13 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:13

So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast

Verse 14 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:14

and the earth and the mountains are lifted and crushed with a single blow

Verse 15 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:15

On that Day, the Occurrence will occur

Verse 16 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:16

and Heaven will be split apart, for that Day it will be very frail

Verse 17 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:17

The angels will be gathered round its edge. On that Day, eight will bear the Throne of their Lord above their heads

Verse 18 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:18

On that Day you will be exposed — no concealed act you did will stay concealed

Verse 19 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:19

As for him who is given his Book in his right hand, he will say, ´Here, come and read my Book

Verse 20 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:20

I counted on meeting my Reckoning.´

Verse 21 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:21

He will have a very pleasant life

Verse 22 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:22

in an elevated Garden

Verse 23 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:23

its ripe fruit hanging close to hand

Verse 24 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:24

´Eat and drink with relish for what you did before in days gone by!´

Verse 25 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:25

But as for him who is given his Book in his left hand, he will say, ´If only I had not been given my Book

Verse 26 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:26

and had not known about my Reckoning

Verse 27 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:27

If only death had really been the end

Verse 28 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:28

My wealth has been of no use to me

Verse 29 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:29

My power has vanished.´

Verse 30 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:30

´Seize him and truss him up

Verse 31 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:31

Then roast him in the Blazing Fire

Verse 32 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:32

Then bind him in a chain which is seventy cubits long

Verse 33 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:33

He used not to have iman in Allah the Magnificent

Verse 34 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:34

nor did he urge the feeding of the poor

Verse 35 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:35

Therefore here today he has no friend

Verse 36 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:36

nor any food except exuding pus

Verse 37 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:37

which no one will eat except those who were in error.´

Verse 38 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:38

I swear both by what you see

Verse 39 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:39

and what you do not see

Verse 40 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:40

that this is the word of a noble Messenger

Verse 41 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:41

It is not the word of a poet — how little iman you have

Verse 42 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:42

Nor the word of a fortune-teller — how little heed you pay

Verse 43 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:43

It is a revelation from the Lord of all the worlds

Verse 44 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:44

If he had made up any sayings and ascribed them to Us

Verse 45 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:45

We would have seized him by force

Verse 46 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:46

and then We would have cut off his life-blood

Verse 47 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:47

and not one of you could have protected him

Verse 48 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:48

It is a reminder to the people with taqwa

Verse 49 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:49

We know that some of you will deny it

Verse 50 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:50

It is a cause of great distress to those who are kafir

Verse 51 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:51

And it is undeniably the Truth of Certainty

Verse 52 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:52

Glorify then the name of your Lord, the Magnificent