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English - Chapter 69 - Al-Haqqah

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Verse 1 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:1

Verse 2 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:2

Verse 3 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:3

What will make you recognize what reality is like

Verse 4 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:4

Thamud and Ad denied [they would face] disaster

Verse 5 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:5

As for Thamud, they were wiped out by the Thunderbolt

Verse 6 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:6

As for Ad, they were wiped out by a furiously howling gale

Verse 7 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:7

He loosed it on them for seven grueling nights and eight days. You would see folk collapsing in it as if they were hollow palm trunks

Verse 8 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:8

Do you see any survivors from them

Verse 9 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:9

Pharaoh came, as well as those before him, and the places Overthrown through [their own] misdeeds

Verse 10 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:10

they defied their Lord´s messenger, so He seized them with a tightening grip

Verse 11 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:11

When the water overflowed, We loaded you on the vessel

Verse 12 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:12

so We might set it up as a Reminder for you and so (your) attentive ears might retain it

Verse 13 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:13

When a single blast is blown on the Trumpet

Verse 14 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:14

and the earth is lifted up along with the mountains and they are both flattened by a single blow

Verse 15 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:15

the Event will take place on that day

Verse 16 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:16

The sky will split open and seem flimsy that day

Verse 17 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:17

while angels [will stand] along its edges. Eight [in all] will bear your Lord´s throne above them on that day

Verse 18 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:18

On that day you will (all) be arraigned; no secret of yours will remain hidden

Verse 19 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:19

Anyone who is given his book in his right hand will say: "Here, read my book

Verse 20 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:20

I always thought I would face my reckoning

Verse 21 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:21

He will be in pleasant living

Verse 22 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:22

Verse 23 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:23

whose clusters [of fruit] will hang within easy reach

Verse 24 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:24

Eat and drink to your heart´s content because of what you sent on ahead in bygone days

Verse 25 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:25

However anyone who is given his book in his left hand will say: "It´s too bad for me; if only my book had not been given me

Verse 26 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:26

I would not have known my reckoning

Verse 27 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:27

If it had only been the Sentence [once and for all]

Verse 28 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:28

My money has not helped me out

Verse 29 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:29

my authority has been wiped out on me

Verse 30 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:30

Take him off and handcuff him

Verse 31 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:31

Then let Hades roast him

Verse 32 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:32

Then padlock him to a chain gang seventy yards long

Verse 33 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:33

He did not believe in God Almighty

Verse 34 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:34

nor ever urge [others) to feed the needy

Verse 35 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:35

He has no close friend here today

Verse 36 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:36

nor any food except for some garbage

Verse 37 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:37

which only sinners eat

Verse 38 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:38

Yet I swear by whatever you observe

Verse 39 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:39

and what you do not observe

Verse 40 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:40

that it is a statement [made] by a noble messenger

Verse 41 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:41

It is no poet´s statement; how little do you believe

Verse 42 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:42

Nor is it some fortune teller´s statement; how little do you think things over

Verse 43 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:43

[It is] something sent down by the Lord of the Universe

Verse 44 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:44

If he had mouthed some [false] statements about Us

Verse 45 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:45

We would have seized him by the right hand

Verse 46 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:46

then cut off his main artery

Verse 47 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:47

Not one of you would have prevented it

Verse 48 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:48

It is a Reminder for the heedful

Verse 49 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:49

We know too that some of you will reject it

Verse 50 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:50

It means despair for disbelievers

Verse 51 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:51

yet it is the absolute Truth

Verse 52 — Surah Al-Haqqah 69:52

So hymn your Lord´s almighty name