Chapter 69, 52 verses
The sure calamity!
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The Inevitable (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)!
What is the sure calamity!
What is the Inevitable?
And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!
And what will make you know what the Inevitable is?
Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie.
Thamud and 'Ad people denied the Qari'ah (the striking Hour of Judgement)!
Then as to Samood, they were destroyed by an excessively severe punishment.
As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the awful cry!
And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent blast.
And as for 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious violent wind!
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.
Which Allah imposed on them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so that you could see men lying overthrown (destroyed), as if they were hollow trunks of date-palms!
Do you then see of them one remaining?
Do you see any remnants of them?
And Firon and those before him and the overthrown cities continuously committed sins.
And Fir'aun (Pharaoh), and those before him, and the cities overthrown [the towns of the people of [Lut (Lot)] committed sin.
And they disobeyed the Apostle of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment.
And they disobeyed their Lord's Messenger, so He seized them with a strong punishment.
Surely We bore you up in the ship when the water rose high,
Verily, when the water rose beyond its limits [Nuh's (Noah) Flood], We carried you (mankind) in the floating [ship that was constructed by Nuh (Noah)]
So that We may make it a reminder to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.
That We might make it (Noah's ship) an admonition for you and that it might be retained by the retaining ears.
And when the trumpet is blown with a single blast,
Then when the Trumpet will be blown with one blowing (the first one).
And the earth and the mountains are borne away and crushed with a single crushing.
And the earth and the mountains shall be removed from their places, and crushed with a single crushing.
On that day shall the great event come to pass,
Then on that Day shall the (Great) Event befall.
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that day it shall be frail,
And the heaven will be rent asunder, for that Day it (the heaven) will be frail and torn up.
And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and above them eight shall bear on that day your Lord's power.
And the angels will be on its sides, and eight angels will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord above them.
On that day you shall be exposed to view - - no secret of yours shall remain hidden.
That Day shall you be brought to Judgement, not a secret of you will be hidden.
Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say: Lo! read my book:
Then as for him who will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Here! read my Record!
Surely I knew that I shall meet my account.
"Surely, I did believe that I shall meet my Account!"
So he shall be in a life of pleasure,
So he shall be in a life, well-pleasing.
In a lofty garden,
In a lofty Paradise,
The fruits of which are near at hand:
The fruits in bunches whereof will be low and near at hand.
Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by.
Eat and drink at ease for that which you have sent on before you in days past!
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:
But as for him who will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "I wish that I had not been given my Record!
And I had not known what my account was:
"And that I had never known how my Account is!
O would that it had made an end (of me):
"Would that it had been my end (death)!
My wealth has availed me nothing:
"My wealth has not availed me;
My authority is gone away from me.
"My power (and arguments to defend myself) have gone from me!"
Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,
(It will be said): "Seize him and fetter him;
Then cast him into the burning fire,
Then throw him in the blazing Fire.
Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.
"Then fasten him with a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits!"
Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,
Verily, he used not to believe in Allah, the Most Great,
Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.
And urged not on the feeding of Al-Miskin (the poor).
Therefore he has not here today a true friend,
So no friend has he here this Day,
Nor any food except refuse,
Nor any food except filth from the washing of wounds.
Which none but the wrongdoers eat.
None will eat it except the Khati'un (sinners, disbelievers, polytheists).
But nay! I swear by that which you see,
So I swear by whatsoever you see,
And that which you do not see.
And by whatsoever you see not,
Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honored Apostle,
That this is verily, the word of an honoured Messenger [i.e. Jibril (Gabriel) or Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم which he has brought from Allah].
And it is not the word of a poet; little is it that you believe;
It is not the word of a poet: little is that you believe!
Nor the word of a soothsayer; little is it that you mind.
Nor is it the word of a soothsayer (or a foreteller): little is that you remember!
It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
This is the Revelation sent down from the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists).
And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings,
And if he (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) had forged a false saying concerning Us (Allah جل جلاله),
We would certainly have seized him by the right hand,
We surely would have seized him by his right hand (or with power and might),
Then We would certainly have cut off his aorta.
And then We certainly would have cut off his life artery (aorta),
And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.
And none of you could have withheld Us from (punishing) him.
And most surely it is a reminder for those who guard (against evil).
And verily, this (Qur'an) is a Reminder for the Muttaqun (the pious. See V.2:2).
And most surely We know that some of you are rejecters.
And verily, We know that there are some among you that belie (this Qur'an). (Tafsir At-Tabari)
And most surely it is a great grief to the unbelievers.
And indeed it (this Qur'an) will be an anguish for the disbelievers (on the Day of Resurrection).
And most surely it is the true certainty
And verily, it (this Qur'an) is an absolute truth with certainty.
Therefore - glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.
So glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most Great.