English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The INEVITABLE

What is the Inevitable

And who shall make thee comprehend what the Inevitable is

Themoud and Ad treated the day of Terrors as a lie

So as to Themoud, they were destroyed by crashing thunder bolts

And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring and furious blast

It did the bidding of God against them seven nights and eight days together, during which thou mightest have seen the people laid low, as though they had been the trunks of hollow palms

And couldst thou have seen one of them surviving

Pharaoh also, and those who flourished before him, and the overthrown cities, committed sin

And disobeyed the Sent one of their Lord; therefore did he chastise them with an accumulated chastisement

When the Flood rose high, we bare you in the Ark

That we might make that event a warning to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it

But when one blast shall be blown on the trumpet

And the earth and the mountains shall be upheaved, and shall both be crushed into dust at a single crushing

On that day the woe that must come suddenly shall suddenly come

And the heaven shall cleave asunder, for on that day it shall be fragile

And the angels shall be on its sides, and over them on that day eight shall bear up the throne of thy Lord

On that day ye shall be brought before Him: none of your hidden deeds shall remain hidden

And he who shall have his book given to him in his right hand, will say to his friends, "Take ye it; read ye my book

I ever thought that to this my reckoning I should come

And his shall be a life that shall please him well

In a lofty garden

Whose clusters shall be near at hand

Eat ye and drink with healthy relish, as the meed of what ye sent on beforehand in the days which are past

But he who shall have his book given into his left hand, will say, "O that my book had never been given me

And that I had never known my reckoning

O that death had made an end of me

My wealth hath not profited me

My power hath perished from me

Lay ye hold on him and chain him

Then at the Hell-fire burn him

Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits thrust him

For he believed not in God, the Great

And was not careful to feed the poor

No friend therefore shall he have here this day

Nor food, but corrupt sores

Which none shall eat but the sinners

It needs not that I swear by what ye see

That this verily is the word of an apostle worthy of all honour

And that it is not the word of a poet - how little do ye believe

Neither is it the word of a soothsayer (Kahin) - how little do ye receive warning

It is a missive from the Lord of the worlds

But if Muhammad had fabricated concerning us any sayings

We had surely seized him by the right hand

And had cut through the vein of his neck

Nor would We have withheld any one of you from him

But, verily, It (the Koran) is a warning for the God-fearing

And we well know that there are of you who treat it as a falsehood

But it shall be the despair of infidels

For it is the very truth of sure knowledge

Praise, then, the name of thy Lord, the Great