English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The Indubitable

What is the Indubitable

And what will teach thee what is the Indubitable

Thamood and Ad cried lies to the Clatterer

As for Thamood, they were destroyed by the Screamer

and as for Ad, they were destroyed by a wind clamorous

violent that He compelled against them seven nights and eight days, uninterruptedly, and thou mightest see the people laid prostrate in it as if they were the stumps of fallen down palm-trees

Now dost thou see any remnant of them

Pharaoh likewise, and those before him, and the Subverted Cities -- they committed error

Lo, when the waters rose, We bore you in the running ship

that We might make it a reminder for you and for heeding ears to hold

So, when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast

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

then, on that day, the Terror shall come to pass

and heaven shall be split, for upon that day it shall be very frail

and the angels shall stand upon its borders, and upon that day eight shall carry above them the Throne of thy Lord

On that day you shall be exposed, not one secret of yours concealed

Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he shall say, 'Here, take and read my book

Certainly I thought that I should encounter my reckoning

So he shall be in a pleasing life

in a lofty Garden

its clusters nigh to gather

Eat and drink with wholesome appetite for that you did long ago, in the days gone by

But as for him who is given his book in his left hand, he shall say, 'Would that I had not been given my book

and not known my reckoning

Would it had been the end

My wealth has not availed me

my authority is gone from me

Take him, and fetter him

and then roast him in Hell

then in a chain of seventy cubits' length insert him

Behold, he never believed in God the All-mighty

and he never urged the feeding of the needy

therefore he today has not here one loyal friend

neither any food saving foul pus

that none excepting the sinners eat

No! I swear by that you see

and by that you do not see

it is the speech of a noble Messenger

It is not the speech of a poet (little do you believe)

nor the speech of a soothsayer (little do you remember)

A sending down from the Lord of all Being

Had he invented against Us any sayings

We would have seized him by the right hand

then We would surely have cut his life-vein

and not one of you could have defended him

Surely it is a Reminder to the godfearing

but We know that some of you will cry lies

Surely it is a sorrow to the unbelievers

yet indeed it is the truth of certainty

Then magnify the Name of thy Lord, the All-mighty