English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The sure calamity

What is the sure calamity

And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is

Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie

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

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 of them one remaining

And Firon and those before him and the overthrown cities continuously committed sins

And they disobeyed the Apostle of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment

Surely We bore you up in the ship when the water rose high

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

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 on that day your Lord's power

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: Lo! read my book

Surely I knew that I shall meet my account

So he shall be in a life of pleasure

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 had not known what my account was

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

My wealth has availed me nothing

My authority is gone away from me

Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him

Then cast him into the burning fire

Then thrust him into 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 refuse

Which none but the wrongdoers eat

But nay! I swear by that which you see

And that which you do not see

Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honored Apostle

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 cut off his aorta

And not one of you could have withheld Us from him

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

And most surely We know that some of you are rejecters

And most surely it is a great grief to the unbelievers

And most surely it is the true certainty

Therefore-glorify the name of your Lord, the Great