Chapter 69, 52 verses
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحاقة
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Reality!
The Sure Reality!
ما الحاقة
What is the Reality ?
What is the Sure Reality?
وما أدراك ما الحاقة
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the reality is!
And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
كذبت ثمود وعاد بالقارعة
(The tribes of) Thamud and A'ad disbelieved in the judgment to come.
The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
فأما ثمود فأهلكوا بالطاغية
As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightning.
But the Thamud, - they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
وأما عاد فأهلكوا بريح صرصر عاتية
And as for A'ad, they were destroyed by a fierce roaring wind,
And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
سخرها عليهم سبع ليال وثمانية أيام حسوما فترى القوم فيها صرعى كأنهم أعجاز نخل خاوية
Which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that thou mightest have seen men lying overthrown, as they were hollow trunks of palm - trees.
He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm - trees tumbled down!
فهل ترى لهم من باقية
Canst thou (O Muhammad) see any remnant of them ?
Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
وجاء فرعون ومن قبله والمؤتفكات بالخاطئة
And Pharaoh and those before him, and the communities that were destroyed, brought error,
And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
فعصوا رسول ربهم فأخذهم أخذة رابية
And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, therefor did He grip them with a tightening grip.
And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
إنا لما طغى الماء حملناكم في الجارية
Lo! when the waters rose, We carried you upon the ship
We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
لنجعلها لكم تذكرة وتعيها أذن واعية
That We might make it a memorial for you, and that remembering ears (that heard the story) might remember.
That We might make it a Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.
فإذا نفخ في الصور نفخة واحدة
And when the trumpet shall sound one blast
Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
وحملت الأرض والجبال فدكتا دكة واحدة
And the earth with the mountains shall be lifted up and crushed with one crash,
And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke, -
فيومئذ وقعت الواقعة
Then, on that day will the Event befall.
On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
وانشقت السماء فهي يومئذ واهية
And the heaven will split asunder, for that day it will be frail.
And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
والملك على أرجائها ۚ ويحمل عرش ربك فوقهم يومئذ ثمانية
And the angels will be on the sides thereof, and eight will uphold the Throne of thy Lord that day, above them.
And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
يومئذ تعرضون لا تخفى منكم خافية
On that day ye will be exposed; not a secret of you will be hidden.
That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
فأما من أوتي كتابه بيمينه فيقول هاؤم اقرءوا كتابيه
Then, as for him who is given his record in his right hand, he will say: Take, read my book!
Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!
إني ظننت أني ملاق حسابيه
Surely I knew that I should have to meet my reckoning.
"I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
فهو في عيشة راضية
Then he will be in blissful state
And he will be in a life of Bliss,
في جنة عالية
In a high garden
In a Garden on high,
قطوفها دانية
Whereof the clusters are in easy reach.
The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
كلوا واشربوا هنيئا بما أسلفتم في الأيام الخالية
(And it will be said unto those therein): Eat and drink at ease for that which ye sent on before you in past days.
"Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
وأما من أوتي كتابه بشماله فيقول يا ليتني لم أوت كتابيه
But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say: Oh, would that I had not been given my book
And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!
ولم أدر ما حسابيه
And knew not what my reckoning!
"And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
يا ليتها كانت القاضية
Oh, would that it had been death!
"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
ما أغنى عني ماليه ۜ
My wealth hath not availed me,
"Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
هلك عني سلطانيه
My power hath gone from me.
"My power has perished from me!"...
خذوه فغلوه
(It will be said): Take him and fetter him
(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
ثم الجحيم صلوه
And then expose him to hell - fire
"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
ثم في سلسلة ذرعها سبعون ذراعا فاسلكوه
And then insert him in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits.
"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
إنه كان لا يؤمن بالله العظيم
Lo! He used not to believe in Allah the Tremendous,
"This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
ولا يحض على طعام المسكين
And urged not on the feeding of the wretched.
"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
فليس له اليوم هاهنا حميم
Therefor hath he no lover here this day,
"So no friend hath he here this Day.
ولا طعام إلا من غسلين
Nor any food save filth
"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
لا يأكله إلا الخاطئون
Which none but sinners eat.
"Which none do eat but those in sin."
فلا أقسم بما تبصرون
But nay! I swear by all that ye see
So I do call to witness what ye see,
وما لا تبصرون
And all that ye see not
And what ye see not,
إنه لقول رسول كريم
That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger.
That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
وما هو بقول شاعر ۚ قليلا ما تؤمنون
It is not poet's speech - little is it that ye believe!
It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
ولا بقول كاهن ۚ قليلا ما تذكرون
Nor diviner's speech - little is it that ye remember!
Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
تنزيل من رب العالمين
It is a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.
(This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
ولو تقول علينا بعض الأقاويل
And if he had invented false sayings concerning Us,
And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
لأخذنا منه باليمين
We assuredly had taken him by the right hand
We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
ثم لقطعنا منه الوتين
And then severed his life - artery,
And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
فما منكم من أحد عنه حاجزين
And not one of you could have held Us off from him.
Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
وإنه لتذكرة للمتقين
And lo! it is a warrant unto those who ward off (evil).
But verily this is a Message for the Allah - fearing.
وإنا لنعلم أن منكم مكذبين
And lo! We know that some among you will deny (it).
And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
وإنه لحسرة على الكافرين
And lo! it is indeed an anguish for the disbelievers.
But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
وإنه لحق اليقين
And lo! it is absolute truth.
But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
فسبح باسم ربك العظيم
So glorify the name of thy Tremendous Lord.
So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.