Shakir
The sure calamity!
Transliteration
Alhaqqatu
Al Haqqa
Chapter 69, 52 verses
Shakir
What is the sure calamity!
Transliteration
Ma alhaqqatu
Shakir
And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!
Transliteration
Wama adraka ma alhaqqatu
Shakir
Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie.
Transliteration
Kaththabat thamoodu waAAadun bialqariAAati
Shakir
Then as to Samood, they were destroyed by an excessively severe punishment.
Transliteration
Faamma thamoodu faohlikoo bialttaghiyati
Shakir
And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent blast.
Transliteration
Waamma AAadun faohlikoo bireehin sarsarin AAatiyatin
Shakir
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.
Transliteration
Sakhkharaha AAalayhim sabAAa layalin wathamaniyata ayyamin husooman fatara alqawma feeha sarAAa kaannahum aAAjazu nakhlin khawiyatun
Shakir
Do you then see of them one remaining?
Transliteration
Fahal tara lahum min baqiyatin
Shakir
And Firon and those before him and the overthrown cities continuously committed sins.
Transliteration
Wajaa firAAawnu waman qablahu waalmutafikatu bialkhatiati
Shakir
And they disobeyed the Apostle of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment.
Transliteration
FaAAasaw rasoola rabbihim faakhathahum akhthatan rabiyatan
Shakir
Surely We bore you up in the ship when the water rose high,
Transliteration
Inna lamma tagha almao hamalnakum fee aljariyati
Shakir
So that We may make it a reminder to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.
Transliteration
LinajAAalaha lakum tathkiratan wataAAiyaha othunun waAAiyatun
Shakir
And when the trumpet is blown with a single blast,
Transliteration
Faitha nufikha fee alssoori nafkhatun wahidatun
Shakir
And the earth and the mountains are borne away and crushed with a single crushing.
Transliteration
Wahumilati alardu waaljibalu fadukkata dakkatan wahidatan
Shakir
On that day shall the great event come to pass,
Transliteration
Fayawmaithin waqaAAati alwaqiAAatu
Shakir
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that day it shall be frail,
Transliteration
Wainshaqqati alssamao fahiya yawmaithin wahiyatun
Shakir
And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and above them eight shall bear on that day your Lord's power.
Transliteration
Waalmalaku AAala arjaiha wayahmilu AAarsha rabbika fawqahum yawmaithin thamaniyatun
Shakir
On that day you shall be exposed to view - - no secret of yours shall remain hidden.
Transliteration
Yawmaithin tuAAradoona la takhfa minkum khafiyatun
Shakir
Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say: Lo! read my book:
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Faamma man ootiya kitabahu biyameenihi fayaqoolu haomu iqraoo kitabiyah
Shakir
Surely I knew that I shall meet my account.
Transliteration
Innee thanantu annee mulaqin hisabiyah
Shakir
So he shall be in a life of pleasure,
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Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
Shakir
In a lofty garden,
Transliteration
Fee jannatin AAaliyatin
Shakir
The fruits of which are near at hand:
Transliteration
Qutoofuha daniyatun
Shakir
Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by.
Transliteration
Kuloo waishraboo haneean bima aslaftum fee alayyami alkhaliyati
Shakir
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:
Transliteration
Waamma man ootiya kitabahu bishimalihi fayaqoolu ya laytanee lam oota kitabiyah
Shakir
And I had not known what my account was:
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Walam adri ma hisabiyah
Shakir
O would that it had made an end (of me):
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Ya laytaha kanati alqadiyatu
Shakir
My wealth has availed me nothing:
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Ma aghna AAannee maliyah
Shakir
My authority is gone away from me.
Transliteration
Halaka AAannee sultaniyah
Shakir
Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,
Transliteration
Khuthoohu faghulloohu
Shakir
Then cast him into the burning fire,
Transliteration
Thumma aljaheema salloohu
Shakir
Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.
Transliteration
Thumma fee silsilatin tharAAuha sabAAoona thiraAAan faoslukoohu
Shakir
Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,
Transliteration
Innahu kana la yuminu biAllahi alAAatheemi
Shakir
Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.
Transliteration
Wala yahuddu AAala taAAami almiskeeni
Shakir
Therefore he has not here today a true friend,
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Falaysa lahu alyawma hahuna hameemun
Shakir
Nor any food except refuse,
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Wala taAAamun illa min ghisleenin
Shakir
Which none but the wrongdoers eat.
Transliteration
La yakuluhu illa alkhatioona
Shakir
But nay! I swear by that which you see,
Transliteration
Fala oqsimu bima tubsiroona
Shakir
And that which you do not see.
Transliteration
Wama la tubsiroona
Shakir
Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honored Apostle,
Transliteration
Innahu laqawlu rasoolin kareemin
Shakir
And it is not the word of a poet; little is it that you believe;
Transliteration
Wama huwa biqawli shaAAirin qaleelan ma tuminoona
Shakir
Nor the word of a soothsayer; little is it that you mind.
Transliteration
Wala biqawli kahinin qaleelan ma tathakkaroona
Shakir
It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
Transliteration
Tanzeelun min rabbi alAAalameena
Shakir
And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings,
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Walaw taqawwala AAalayna baAAda alaqaweeli
Shakir
We would certainly have seized him by the right hand,
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Laakhathna minhu bialyameeni
Shakir
Then We would certainly have cut off his aorta.
Transliteration
Thumma laqataAAna minhu alwateena
Shakir
And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.
Transliteration
Fama minkum min ahadin AAanhu hajizeena
Shakir
And most surely it is a reminder for those who guard (against evil).
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Wainnahu latathkiratun lilmuttaqeena
Shakir
And most surely We know that some of you are rejecters.
Transliteration
Wainna lanaAAlamu anna minkum mukaththibeena
Shakir
And most surely it is a great grief to the unbelievers.
Transliteration
Wainnahu lahasratun AAala alkafireena
Shakir
And most surely it is the true certainty
Transliteration
Wainnahu lahaqqu alyaqeeni
Shakir
Therefore - glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.
Transliteration
Fasabbih biismi rabbika alAAatheemi