Chapter 69, 52 verses
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحاقة
The Sure Reality!
The sure calamity!
ما الحاقة
What is the Sure Reality?
What is the sure calamity!
وما أدراك ما الحاقة
And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!
كذبت ثمود وعاد بالقارعة
The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie.
فأما ثمود فأهلكوا بالطاغية
But the Thamud, - they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
Then as to Samood, they were destroyed by an excessively severe punishment.
وأما عاد فأهلكوا بريح صرصر عاتية
And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent blast.
سخرها عليهم سبع ليال وثمانية أيام حسوما فترى القوم فيها صرعى كأنهم أعجاز نخل خاوية
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!
Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms.
فهل ترى لهم من باقية
Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
Do you then see of them one remaining?
وجاء فرعون ومن قبله والمؤتفكات بالخاطئة
And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
And Firon and those before him and the overthrown cities continuously committed sins.
فعصوا رسول ربهم فأخذهم أخذة رابية
And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
And they disobeyed the Apostle of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment.
إنا لما طغى الماء حملناكم في الجارية
We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
Surely We bore you up in the ship when the water rose high,
لنجعلها لكم تذكرة وتعيها أذن واعية
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.
So that We may make it a reminder to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.
فإذا نفخ في الصور نفخة واحدة
Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
And when the trumpet is blown with a single blast,
وحملت الأرض والجبال فدكتا دكة واحدة
And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke, -
And the earth and the mountains are borne away and crushed with a single crushing.
فيومئذ وقعت الواقعة
On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
On that day shall the great event come to pass,
وانشقت السماء فهي يومئذ واهية
And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that day it shall be frail,
والملك على أرجائها ۚ ويحمل عرش ربك فوقهم يومئذ ثمانية
And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and above them eight shall bear on that day your Lord's power.
يومئذ تعرضون لا تخفى منكم خافية
That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
On that day you shall be exposed to view - - no secret of yours shall remain hidden.
فأما من أوتي كتابه بيمينه فيقول هاؤم اقرءوا كتابيه
Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!
Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say: Lo! read my book:
إني ظننت أني ملاق حسابيه
"I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
Surely I knew that I shall meet my account.
فهو في عيشة راضية
And he will be in a life of Bliss,
So he shall be in a life of pleasure,
في جنة عالية
In a Garden on high,
In a lofty garden,
قطوفها دانية
The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
The fruits of which are near at hand:
كلوا واشربوا هنيئا بما أسلفتم في الأيام الخالية
"Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by.
وأما من أوتي كتابه بشماله فيقول يا ليتني لم أوت كتابيه
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!
And as for him who is given his book in his left hand he shall say: O would that my book had never been given me:
ولم أدر ما حسابيه
"And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
And I had not known what my account was:
يا ليتها كانت القاضية
"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
O would that it had made an end (of me):
ما أغنى عني ماليه ۜ
"Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
My wealth has availed me nothing:
هلك عني سلطانيه
"My power has perished from me!"...
My authority is gone away from me.
خذوه فغلوه
(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,
ثم الجحيم صلوه
"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
Then cast him into the burning fire,
ثم في سلسلة ذرعها سبعون ذراعا فاسلكوه
"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.
إنه كان لا يؤمن بالله العظيم
"This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,
ولا يحض على طعام المسكين
"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.
فليس له اليوم هاهنا حميم
"So no friend hath he here this Day.
Therefore he has not here today a true friend,
ولا طعام إلا من غسلين
"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
Nor any food except refuse,
لا يأكله إلا الخاطئون
"Which none do eat but those in sin."
Which none but the wrongdoers eat.
فلا أقسم بما تبصرون
So I do call to witness what ye see,
But nay! I swear by that which you see,
وما لا تبصرون
And what ye see not,
And that which you do not see.
إنه لقول رسول كريم
That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honored Apostle,
وما هو بقول شاعر ۚ قليلا ما تؤمنون
It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
And it is not the word of a poet; little is it that you believe;
ولا بقول كاهن ۚ قليلا ما تذكرون
Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
Nor the word of a soothsayer; little is it that you mind.
تنزيل من رب العالمين
(This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
ولو تقول علينا بعض الأقاويل
And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings,
لأخذنا منه باليمين
We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
We would certainly have seized him by the right hand,
ثم لقطعنا منه الوتين
And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
Then We would certainly have cut off his aorta.
فما منكم من أحد عنه حاجزين
Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.
وإنه لتذكرة للمتقين
But verily this is a Message for the Allah - fearing.
And most surely it is a reminder for those who guard (against evil).
وإنا لنعلم أن منكم مكذبين
And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
And most surely We know that some of you are rejecters.
وإنه لحسرة على الكافرين
But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
And most surely it is a great grief to the unbelievers.
وإنه لحق اليقين
But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
And most surely it is the true certainty
فسبح باسم ربك العظيم
So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.
Therefore - glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.