Shakir
The sure calamity!
Yusuf Ali
The Sure Reality!
Al Haqqa
Chapter 69, 52 verses
Shakir
What is the sure calamity!
Yusuf Ali
What is the Sure Reality?
Shakir
And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!
Yusuf Ali
And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
Shakir
Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie.
Yusuf Ali
The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
Shakir
Then as to Samood, they were destroyed by an excessively severe punishment.
Yusuf Ali
But the Thamud, - they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
Shakir
And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent blast.
Yusuf Ali
And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
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.
Yusuf Ali
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!
Shakir
Do you then see of them one remaining?
Yusuf Ali
Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
Shakir
And Firon and those before him and the overthrown cities continuously committed sins.
Yusuf Ali
And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
Shakir
And they disobeyed the Apostle of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment.
Yusuf Ali
And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
Shakir
Surely We bore you up in the ship when the water rose high,
Yusuf Ali
We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
Shakir
So that We may make it a reminder to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.
Yusuf Ali
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.
Shakir
And when the trumpet is blown with a single blast,
Yusuf Ali
Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
Shakir
And the earth and the mountains are borne away and crushed with a single crushing.
Yusuf Ali
And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke, -
Shakir
On that day shall the great event come to pass,
Yusuf Ali
On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
Shakir
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that day it shall be frail,
Yusuf Ali
And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
Shakir
And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and above them eight shall bear on that day your Lord's power.
Yusuf Ali
And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
Shakir
On that day you shall be exposed to view - - no secret of yours shall remain hidden.
Yusuf Ali
That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
Shakir
Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say: Lo! read my book:
Yusuf Ali
Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!
Shakir
Surely I knew that I shall meet my account.
Yusuf Ali
"I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
Shakir
So he shall be in a life of pleasure,
Yusuf Ali
And he will be in a life of Bliss,
Shakir
In a lofty garden,
Yusuf Ali
In a Garden on high,
Shakir
The fruits of which are near at hand:
Yusuf Ali
The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
Shakir
Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by.
Yusuf Ali
"Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
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:
Yusuf Ali
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!
Shakir
And I had not known what my account was:
Yusuf Ali
"And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
Shakir
O would that it had made an end (of me):
Yusuf Ali
"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
Shakir
My wealth has availed me nothing:
Yusuf Ali
"Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
Shakir
My authority is gone away from me.
Yusuf Ali
"My power has perished from me!"...
Shakir
Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,
Yusuf Ali
(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
Shakir
Then cast him into the burning fire,
Yusuf Ali
"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
Shakir
Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.
Yusuf Ali
"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
Shakir
Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,
Yusuf Ali
"This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
Shakir
Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.
Yusuf Ali
"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
Shakir
Therefore he has not here today a true friend,
Yusuf Ali
"So no friend hath he here this Day.
Shakir
Nor any food except refuse,
Yusuf Ali
"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
Shakir
Which none but the wrongdoers eat.
Yusuf Ali
"Which none do eat but those in sin."
Shakir
But nay! I swear by that which you see,
Yusuf Ali
So I do call to witness what ye see,
Shakir
And that which you do not see.
Yusuf Ali
And what ye see not,
Shakir
Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honored Apostle,
Yusuf Ali
That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
Shakir
And it is not the word of a poet; little is it that you believe;
Yusuf Ali
It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
Shakir
Nor the word of a soothsayer; little is it that you mind.
Yusuf Ali
Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
Shakir
It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
Yusuf Ali
(This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
Shakir
And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings,
Yusuf Ali
And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
Shakir
We would certainly have seized him by the right hand,
Yusuf Ali
We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
Shakir
Then We would certainly have cut off his aorta.
Yusuf Ali
And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
Shakir
And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.
Yusuf Ali
Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
Shakir
And most surely it is a reminder for those who guard (against evil).
Yusuf Ali
But verily this is a Message for the Allah - fearing.
Shakir
And most surely We know that some of you are rejecters.
Yusuf Ali
And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
Shakir
And most surely it is a great grief to the unbelievers.
Yusuf Ali
But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
Shakir
And most surely it is the true certainty
Yusuf Ali
But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
Shakir
Therefore - glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.
Yusuf Ali
So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.