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69. Al-Haqqah - The Sure Truth
| 1 | The true event! |
| 2 | How tremendous is the true event! |
| 3 | And what have you understood, how tremendous the true event is! |
| 4 | The tribes of Thamud and A’ad denied the event of great dismay. (The Day of Resurrection) |
| 5 | So regarding the Thamud, they were destroyed by a terrible scream. |
| 6 | And as for A’ad, they were destroyed by a severe thundering windstorm. |
| 7 | He forced it upon them with strength, consecutively for seven nights and eight days – so you would see those people overthrown in it, like trunks of date palms fallen down. |
| 8 | So do you see any survivor among them? |
| 9 | And Firaun, and those before him, and the dwellings that were inverted and thrown, had brought error. |
| 10 | They therefore disobeyed the Noble Messengers of their Lord – so He seized them with an intense seizure. |
| 11 | Indeed when the water swelled up, We boarded you onto the ship. |
| 12 | In order to make it a remembrance for you, and in order that the ears that store may remember. |
| 13 | So when the Trumpet will be blown, with a sudden single blow. |
| 14 | And the earth and the mountains will be lifted up and crushed with a single crush. |
| 15 | So that is the day when the forthcoming event will occur. |
| 16 | And the heaven will split asunder – so on that day it will be unstable. |
| 17 | And the angels will be on its sides; and on that day, eight angels will carry the Throne of your Lord above them. |
| 18 | On that day all of you will be brought forth, so none among you wishing to hide will be able to hide. |
| 19 | So whoever is given his book in his right hand – he will say, “Take, read my account!” |
| 20 | “I was certain that I will confront my account.” |
| 21 | He is therefore in the desired serenity. |
| 22 | In a lofty Garden – |
| 23 | The fruit clusters of which are hanging down. |
| 24 | “Eat and drink with pleasure – the reward of what you sent ahead, in the past days.” |
| 25 | And whoever is given his book in his left hand – he will say, “Alas, if only my account were not given to me!” |
| 26 | “And had never come to know my account!” |
| 27 | “Alas, if only it had been just death.” |
| 28 | “My wealth did not in the least benefit me.” |
| 29 | “All my power has vanished.” |
| 30 | It will be said, “Seize him, and shackle him.” |
| 31 | “Then hurl him into the blazing fire.” |
| 32 | “Then bind him inside a chain which is seventy arm-lengths.” |
| 33 | “Indeed he refused to accept faith in Allah, the Greatest.” |
| 34 | “And did not urge to feed the needy.” |
| 35 | “So he does not have any friend here this day.” |
| 36 | “Nor any food except the pus discharged from the people of hell.” |
| 37 | “Which none except the guilty shall eat.” |
| 38 | So by oath of the things you see. |
| 39 | And by oath of those you do not see. |
| 40 | This Qur’an is the speech of Allah with a gracious Noble Messenger. |
| 41 | And it is not the speech of a poet; how little do you believe! |
| 42 | Nor is it the speech of a soothsayer; how little do you ponder! |
| 43 | Sent down by the Lord Of The Creation. |
| 44 | And had he fabricated just one matter upon Us – |
| 45 | We would have definitely taken revenge from him. |
| 46 | Then would have cut off his heart’s artery. |
| 47 | Then none among you would be his saviour. |
| 48 | And indeed this Qur’an is an advice for the pious. |
| 49 | And indeed We know that some among you are deniers. |
| 50 | And indeed it is a despair for the disbelievers. |
| 51 | And indeed it is a certain Truth. |
| 52 | Therefore (O dear Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him), proclaim the purity of your Lord, the Greatest. |