English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

The Inevitable Truth

What is the Inevitable Truth

And what makes you realize what the Inevitable Truth is

Thamud and c?d cried lies to the Smiter

So, as for Tham?d, they were made to perish by the inordinate (storm)

And as for c?d, they were then made to perish by a wind most clamorous (and) furious (Literally: rebellious)

He subjected it against them seven nights and eight days in gruesome succession, so that you might have seen the people laid overthrown in it as if they were the hollow stumps of devastated palm- trees

So do you see any remnant of them

And Firaawn (Pharaoh) came, (i.e., after Thamud and Aad) and whoever were before him and the (cities of) falsehood, (i.e., the people of Lut "Lot") with their (habitual) sinfulness

Then they disobeyed the Messenger of their Lord, so He took them (away) with a surpassing grip (Literally: swelling taking)

Surely, as soon as the water (s) overflowed, (Literally: was inordinate) We carried you in the running ship

That We might make it a Reminder for you and for heeding ear (s) to heed

So, when the Trumpet is blown with one blowing

And the earth and the mountains are borne up, then they are pounded one pounding

Then, upon that Day, the Inevitable Event will be fall

And the heaven will be cloven. So, upon that Day it will be (very) frail

And the (commanded) Angels will be upon its dimensions, and upon that Day eight will bear above them the Throne of your Lord

Upon that Day you will be set before (them), not one concealed (secret) of yours will be concealed

So, as for him whose book is brought to him in (Literally: with) his right hand, he will then say, " (Now), here you are! Read my book

Surely I expected that I should meet my reckoning

In an exalted Garden

Its picked (fruits) (are) within (easy) reach

Eat and drink rejoicing with wholesome appetite for what you previously did in the days gone-by

And as for him whose book is brought to him in his left (hand), he will then say, "oh, would that my book had not been brought to me

And that I had not realized my reckoning

Oh, would that it had been the decreed end

In no way has my wealth availed me

My (own) all-binding authority has perished away from me

Take him, and shackle him up

Thereafter roast him in Hell-Fire

Thereafter in a chain of seventy cubits' length insert him

Surely he used not to believe in Allah The Ever-Magnificent

And he did not urge (offering) food to the indigent

So today he has not here now (any) intimate (friend)

Neither any food except of foul refuse

(That) none except the sinners eat

Yet no, I swear by whatever you behold

And whatever you do not behold

Surely it is indeed the saying of an honorable Messenger

And in no way is it the saying of a poet- little do you believe

Nor the saying of a soothsayer- little are you mindful of

A successive sending down from The Lord of the worlds

And if he had talked up against Us any (Literally: some) (false) sayings

Indeed We would have taken (him) by the right hand

Thereafter indeed We would have cut (off) (his) aorta

Then in no way would anyone of you (be) debarring (Us) from him

And surely it is indeed a Reminder to the pious

And surely We indeed know that (some) among you are beliers

And surely it is indeed a (source of) regret to the disbelievers

And surely it is indeed the Truth of certitude

So extol with the Name of your Lord, The Ever-Magnificent