English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The Inevitable

What is the Inevitable

And what do you know what the Inevitable is

The Thamood and the AAad denied possibility of the Striking Calamity happening

Then as for Thamood, they were destroyed by an overpowering blast!h

And as for the AAad, they were destroyed by a furious, violent storm

HE let it [storm] loose upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession. You would have seen the people there then lying prostrate, as though they were uprooted trunks of palm trees

Do you now see any trace of them

And Pharaoh and those before him and the people of the overturned habitations [the people of Lot] committed the same sin

And they followed not the Messenger of their Lord! So He seized them severely

When the water rose to great heights indeed, We bore you upon a floating vessel.h

So as to make it for you an event to remember, and so that an attentive ear commits it to memory

So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blow

And the earth and the mountains are lifted and then crushed at one stroke

On that Day shall the Event [the Hereafter, the Inevitable referred to in Verse above] come to pass

And the sky will be rent asunder, so it becomes loose that Day

And the angels will be at its edges. And eight of them will carry the Throne of your Lord that Day

That Day you shall be presented (before Allah) and no secret of yours shall remain hidden

He then, whose record will be given to him in his right hand, will say, "Here, read this record of mine

I did indeed expect that I would come face to face with my record

He shall then be living a life of bliss

In a lofty Garden

Clusters of its fruits will be within reach

Eat and drink to your satisfaction on account of what you did in the days gone by

And he, whose Record will be given to him in his left hand, will say, "Would that I had never been given my Record

And had I not come to know my account

Oh! Would that [death in the worldly life] be the end of me

My wealth has been of no use to me

My authority is gone from me

[Divine Order for him whose record is given in his left hand:] Seize him and shackle him

Then burn him in the Blazing Fire

Then tie him to a chain, seventy cubits long

And he would feel no urge to feed the poor

And so no friend for him here today

And no food except from discharged wastes

Eat it not but the sinners

But no! I swear by what you see

And by what you do not see

This [the Qur'aan] certainly indeed is a noble Messenger's [Angel's] Word

And not that of a poet! Little do you believe

Nor is it the word of a soothsayer! Little do you reflect

It is a reveation from the Lord of the Universe

And had he [the Prophet] ascribed to Us some of his own sayings

We would surely have seized from him by the right hand

And then severed from him the life vein

And none of you could wit old Us from doing this to him

And, indeed, it [the Qur'aan] is a divine Counsel for those who fear Allah

And We do indeed know that some among you deny this

And, indeed, it [the Qur'aan] is certainly a cause of regret for those who suppress the Truth

And certainly indeed it [the Qur'aan] is the absolute Truth

Chant, then, the name of your Lord, the Almighty