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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. |