English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The sure Reality

What is the sure Reality

And what would make you realize what the sure Reality is

Thamud and A´ad called the Stunning Calamity (the Day of Judgment) a lie

But the Thamud, they were destroyed by the Storm of thunder and lightening

And the A´ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent wind

Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms

Do you then see any of them remaining

And Pharaoh and those before him and the overthrown cities (Sodom and Gomorrah) continuously committed sins

And they disobeyed the Messengers of their Lord, so He punished them with a severe punishment

Surely We bore you (mankind) up in the Ark when the water rose high

So that We may make it a reminder to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it (in memory)

And when the trumpet is blown with a single blast

And the earth and the mountains are borne away and crushed with a single crushing

On that day shall the Great Event come to pass

And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that Day it shall be frail

And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and above them eight shall bear the Throne of their Lord that Day

On that day you shall be exposed to view, no secret of yours shall remain hidden

Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say, "Here! Read my book

Surely I knew that I shall meet my account

In a lofty garden

The fruits of which are near at hand

Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by

And as for him who is given his book in his left hand he shall say, "O would that my book had never been given me

And I did not know how my account stood

O would that it (death) had made an end of me

My wealth has availed me nothing

My authority has perished away from me

(The command is given) "Seize him, and chain him

Then cast him into the burning Fire

Then march him tied to a chain the length of which is seventy cubits

Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great

Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor

Therefore he has not here today a true friend

Nor any food except filth

Which none but the wrongdoers eat

But nay! I swear (or call to witness) by that which you see

And that which you do not see

Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honoured Messenger

And it is not the word of a poet; little is it that you believe

Nor the word of a soothsayer; little is it that you mind

It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds

And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings

We would certainly have seized him by the right hand

Then We would certainly have severed his life-artery

And not one of you could have withheld Us from him

And verily, it is a reminder for those who guard against evil

And verily, We know that some of you are rejecters

And verily, it is a source of great grief to the unbelievers

And verily, it is the Truth of Certainty

Therefore-glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High