English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The truth

What is the truth

And what will make you realize what the truth is

Thamud and Aad denied the disaster

So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the thunder and lightning

And as for Aad, they were destroyed by a violently furious wind

which He imposed on them for seven nights and eight days continuously, so that you could see people lying therein, overthrown as if they were the hollow trunks of date palms

So do you see anyone of them remaining

And Pharaoh and those before him and the overthrown cities, (all) were involved in faults

so they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord therefore He seized them with a severe seizure

When the water overflowed We carried you in the ship

so as to make it a reminder for you and that remembering ears may keep it in memory

So when it will be blown into the trumpet (structure of the universe, with) a single blowing

and the earth will be carried away with the mountains then crushed to pieces with a single crushing

then on that day the event will befall

And the sky will be split asunder, so that day it will be weak

And the angels will be on its sides, and on that day, eight will bear the throne of your Lord above them

On that day all of you will be presented, no secret of yours will be hidden

So, as for him who is given his record in his right hand, he will say, “Take read my record

I was expecting that I would certainly encounter my account (of deeds).”

So he will be in a pleasant life

in a high garden

the clusters of which will be near

(It will be said to him), “Eat and drink pleasantly because of that which you sent before you during the days that are gone (i.e. during the life of the world).”

And as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, “I wish my record had not been given to me

and I had not known what my account (of deeds) was

wish the (death) had made an end of me

my wealth has not made me carefree from (this)

my authority has gone away from me.”

(It will be said), “Catch him then chain him

then make him enter the hell

then make him to enter into a chain, the length of which is seventy cubits(forearm length)

He had not believed in God, the Great

and he had not urged on the feeding of the poor

so he (too) this day, has no intimate friend here

nor any food except the corruption from the washings of wounds

none will eat it except the defaulters.”

So I do swear by that which you see

and that which you do not see (that)

This (Quran) is certainly the word of an honoured messenger

and it is not a word of a poet, little is it that you believe

and it is not a word of a soothsayer, little is it that you mind

(it has been) sent down from the Lord of the worlds

And had he said some words about Us on his own behalf (and attributed them to Us, then)

We would have seized him by his right hand

then We would have cut off the artery of his heart

and not one of you could have withheld Us from him

And it is certainly a reminder for those who guard (against evil)

And it will certainly be (a source of) regret for the disbelievers

And surely it is the truth (deserving) certainty

So glorify the name of your Great Lord