English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The indubitable event

And what is that indubitable event

And what do you know what that indubitable event is

The Thamud and the Ad denied the (possibility of a) sudden calamity, calling it false

Then the Thamud were destroyed by an awesome upheaval

and the Ad were destroyed by a furiously raging wind-storm

which He let loose upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession; so that (if you had been there) you might have seen people lying prostrate, as though they were uprooted trunks of hollowed palm trees

Do you now see any trace of them

Pharaoh and those before him and the people of the overturned habitations all engaged in the same great sin

They did not follow the Messenger of their Lord, and so He seized them with a severe grip

Verily when the water rose to great heights, We bore you upon a floating vessel (i.e. the Ark)

so that We might make it an instructive event for you, and retentive ears might preserve its memory

So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast

and the earth and the mountains are carried aloft and are crushed to bits at one stroke

on that Day shall that indubitable event come to pass

when the sky will be rent asunder, the grip holding it together having loosened on that Day

and the angels will stand on the sides, with eight of them bearing aloft the Throne of your Lord on that Day

That will be the Day when you shall be brought forth (before Allah) and no secret of yours shall remain hidden

On that Day, he whose Record is given to him in his right hand will say: "Lo! Read my Record

Verily I was sure that I would be handed over my account

Then he shall find himself in a life of bliss

in a lofty Garden

the clusters of whose fruit will be hanging low to be within reach (of the inmates of Paradise)

(They will be told): "Eat and drink with good cheer as a reward for the good deeds you did in the days that have passed by

As for him whose Record will be given to him in his left hand, he will exclaim: "Would that I had never been given my Record

and had not known my account

Oh! Would that the death that came to me in the world had made an end of me

My riches have not availed me

and my authority has vanished

(A command will be issued): "Seize him and shackle him

then cast him in the Fire

then fasten him with a chain, seventy cubits long

He would not believe in Allah, the Most Great

nor would he urge the feeding of the poor

Today he has been left here friendless

and has no food except the filth from the washing of wounds

which only the sinners will eat

But no; I swear by what you see

and by what you do not see

that this is the speech of an honourable Messenger

not the speech of a poet. Little do you believe

Nor is this the speech of a soothsayer. Little do you reflect

It has been revealed by the Lord of the Universe

And if he [i.e., the Prophets] had forged this Discourse and thereafter ascribed it to Us

We would surely have seized him by the right hand

and then severed his life vein

and not one of you would have been able to withhold Us from doing so

Surely it is a Good Counsel for the God-fearing

We certainly know that some among you will give the lie to it

and surely it will be a cause of regret for the unbelievers

Certainly it is a Truth of absolute certainty

So glorify the name of your Lord Most Great