English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The infallible

What is the infallible

And what shall cause thee to understand what the infallible is

The tribes of Thamud and Ad denied as a falsehood the day which shall strike men's hearts with terror

But Thamud were destroyed by a terrible noise

And Ad were destroyed by a roaring and furious wind

which God caused to assail them for seven nights and eight days successively: Thou mightest have seen people, during the same, lying prostrate, as though they had been the roots of hollow palm-trees

and couldest thou have seen any of them remaining

Pharaoh also, and those who were before him, and the cities which were overthrown, were guilty of sin

and they severally were disobedient to the apostle of their Lord; wherefore He chastised them with an abundant chastisement

When the water of the deluge arose, We carried you in the ark which swam thereon

that We might make the same a memorial unto you, and the retaining ear might retain it

And when one blast shall sound the trumpet

and the earth shall be moved from its place, and the mountains also, and shall be dashed in pieces at one stroke

On that day the inevitable hour of judgment shall suddenly come

and the heavens shall cleave in sunder, and shall fall in pieces, on that day

And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and eight shall bear the throne of thy Lord above them, on that day

On that day ye shall be presented before the judgment seat of God; and none of your secret actions shall be hidden

And he who shall have his book delivered into his right hand, shall say, take ye, read this my book

verily I thought that I should be brought to this my account

He shall lead a pleasing life

the fruits whereof shall be near to gather

Eat and drink with easy digestion; because of the good works which ye sent before you, in the days which are past

But he who shall have his book delivered into his left hand, shall say, O that I had not received this my book

and that I had not known what this my account was

O that death had made an end of me

My riches have not profited me

and my power is passed from me

And God shall say to the keepers of hell, take him, and bind him

and cast him into hell to be burned

then put him into a chain of the length of seventy cubits

Because he believed not in the great God

and was not solicitous to feed the poor

Wherefore this day he shall have no friend here

nor any food, but the filthy corruption flowing from the bodies of the damned

which none shall eat but the sinners

I swear by that which ye see

and that which ye see not

that this is the discourse of an honourable apostle

and not the discourse of a poet: How little do ye believe

Neither is it the discourse of a soothsayer: How little are ye admonished

It is a revelation from the Lord of all creatures

If Mohammed had forged any part of these discourses concerning Us

verily We had taken him by the right hand

and had cut in sunder the vein of his heart

neither would We have withheld any of you from chastising him

And verily this book is an admonition unto the pious

and We well know that there are some of you who charge the same with imposture

But it shall surely be an occasion of grievous sighing unto the infidels

for it is the truth of a certainty

Wherefore praise the name of thy Lord, the great God