Al Haqqa

Transliteration

1 Alhaqqatu

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The Inevitable (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)!

Pickthall

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Reality!

Transliteration

2 Ma alhaqqatu

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

2 What is the Inevitable?

Pickthall

2 What is the Reality ?

Transliteration

3 Wama adraka ma alhaqqatu

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

3 And what will make you know what the Inevitable is?

Pickthall

3 Ah, what will convey unto thee what the reality is!

Transliteration

4 Kaththabat thamoodu waAAadun bialqariAAati

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

4 Thamud and 'Ad people denied the Qari'ah (the striking Hour of Judgement)!

Pickthall

4 (The tribes of) Thamud and A'ad disbelieved in the judgment to come.

Transliteration

5 Faamma thamoodu faohlikoo bialttaghiyati

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

5 As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the awful cry!

Pickthall

5 As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightning.

Transliteration

6 Waamma AAadun faohlikoo bireehin sarsarin AAatiyatin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

6 And as for 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious violent wind!

Pickthall

6 And as for A'ad, they were destroyed by a fierce roaring wind,

Transliteration

7 Sakhkharaha AAalayhim sabAAa layalin wathamaniyata ayyamin husooman fatara alqawma feeha sarAAa kaannahum aAAjazu nakhlin khawiyatun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

7 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!

Pickthall

7 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.

Transliteration

8 Fahal tara lahum min baqiyatin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

8 Do you see any remnants of them?

Pickthall

8 Canst thou (O Muhammad) see any remnant of them ?

Transliteration

9 Wajaa firAAawnu waman qablahu waalmutafikatu bialkhatiati

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

9 And Fir'aun (Pharaoh), and those before him, and the cities overthrown [the towns of the people of [Lut (Lot)] committed sin.

Pickthall

9 And Pharaoh and those before him, and the communities that were destroyed, brought error,

Transliteration

10 FaAAasaw rasoola rabbihim faakhathahum akhthatan rabiyatan

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

10 And they disobeyed their Lord's Messenger, so He seized them with a strong punishment.

Pickthall

10 And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, therefor did He grip them with a tightening grip.

Transliteration

11 Inna lamma tagha almao hamalnakum fee aljariyati

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

11 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)]

Pickthall

11 Lo! when the waters rose, We carried you upon the ship

Transliteration

12 LinajAAalaha lakum tathkiratan wataAAiyaha othunun waAAiyatun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

12 That We might make it (Noah's ship) an admonition for you and that it might be retained by the retaining ears.

Pickthall

12 That We might make it a memorial for you, and that remembering ears (that heard the story) might remember.

Transliteration

13 Faitha nufikha fee alssoori nafkhatun wahidatun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

13 Then when the Trumpet will be blown with one blowing (the first one).

Pickthall

13 And when the trumpet shall sound one blast

Transliteration

14 Wahumilati alardu waaljibalu fadukkata dakkatan wahidatan

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

14 And the earth and the mountains shall be removed from their places, and crushed with a single crushing.

Pickthall

14 And the earth with the mountains shall be lifted up and crushed with one crash,

Transliteration

15 Fayawmaithin waqaAAati alwaqiAAatu

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

15 Then on that Day shall the (Great) Event befall.

Pickthall

15 Then, on that day will the Event befall.

Transliteration

16 Wainshaqqati alssamao fahiya yawmaithin wahiyatun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

16 And the heaven will be rent asunder, for that Day it (the heaven) will be frail and torn up.

Pickthall

16 And the heaven will split asunder, for that day it will be frail.

Transliteration

17 Waalmalaku AAala arjaiha wayahmilu AAarsha rabbika fawqahum yawmaithin thamaniyatun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

17 And the angels will be on its sides, and eight angels will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord above them.

Pickthall

17 And the angels will be on the sides thereof, and eight will uphold the Throne of thy Lord that day, above them.

Transliteration

18 Yawmaithin tuAAradoona la takhfa minkum khafiyatun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

18 That Day shall you be brought to Judgement, not a secret of you will be hidden.

Pickthall

18 On that day ye will be exposed; not a secret of you will be hidden.

Transliteration

19 Faamma man ootiya kitabahu biyameenihi fayaqoolu haomu iqraoo kitabiyah

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

19 Then as for him who will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Here! read my Record!

Pickthall

19 Then, as for him who is given his record in his right hand, he will say: Take, read my book!

Transliteration

20 Innee thanantu annee mulaqin hisabiyah

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

20 "Surely, I did believe that I shall meet my Account!"

Pickthall

20 Surely I knew that I should have to meet my reckoning.

Transliteration

21 Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

21 So he shall be in a life, well-pleasing.

Pickthall

21 Then he will be in blissful state

Transliteration

22 Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

22 In a lofty Paradise,

Pickthall

22 In a high garden

Transliteration

23 Qutoofuha daniyatun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

23 The fruits in bunches whereof will be low and near at hand.

Pickthall

23 Whereof the clusters are in easy reach.

Transliteration

24 Kuloo waishraboo haneean bima aslaftum fee alayyami alkhaliyati

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

24 Eat and drink at ease for that which you have sent on before you in days past!

Pickthall

24 (And it will be said unto those therein): Eat and drink at ease for that which ye sent on before you in past days.

Transliteration

25 Waamma man ootiya kitabahu bishimalihi fayaqoolu ya laytanee lam oota kitabiyah

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

25 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!

Pickthall

25 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

Transliteration

26 Walam adri ma hisabiyah

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

26 "And that I had never known how my Account is!

Pickthall

26 And knew not what my reckoning!

Transliteration

27 Ya laytaha kanati alqadiyatu

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

27 "Would that it had been my end (death)!

Pickthall

27 Oh, would that it had been death!

Transliteration

28 Ma aghna AAannee maliyah

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

28 "My wealth has not availed me;

Pickthall

28 My wealth hath not availed me,

Transliteration

29 Halaka AAannee sultaniyah

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

29 "My power (and arguments to defend myself) have gone from me!"

Pickthall

29 My power hath gone from me.

Transliteration

30 Khuthoohu faghulloohu

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

30 (It will be said): "Seize him and fetter him;

Pickthall

30 (It will be said): Take him and fetter him

Transliteration

31 Thumma aljaheema salloohu

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

31 Then throw him in the blazing Fire.

Pickthall

31 And then expose him to hell - fire

Transliteration

32 Thumma fee silsilatin tharAAuha sabAAoona thiraAAan faoslukoohu

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

32 "Then fasten him with a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits!"

Pickthall

32 And then insert him in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits.

Transliteration

33 Innahu kana la yuminu biAllahi alAAatheemi

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

33 Verily, he used not to believe in Allah, the Most Great,

Pickthall

33 Lo! He used not to believe in Allah the Tremendous,

Transliteration

34 Wala yahuddu AAala taAAami almiskeeni

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

34 And urged not on the feeding of Al-Miskin (the poor).

Pickthall

34 And urged not on the feeding of the wretched.

Transliteration

35 Falaysa lahu alyawma hahuna hameemun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

35 So no friend has he here this Day,

Pickthall

35 Therefor hath he no lover here this day,

Transliteration

36 Wala taAAamun illa min ghisleenin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

36 Nor any food except filth from the washing of wounds.

Pickthall

36 Nor any food save filth

Transliteration

37 La yakuluhu illa alkhatioona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

37 None will eat it except the Khati'un (sinners, disbelievers, polytheists).

Pickthall

37 Which none but sinners eat.

Transliteration

38 Fala oqsimu bima tubsiroona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

38 So I swear by whatsoever you see,

Pickthall

38 But nay! I swear by all that ye see

Transliteration

39 Wama la tubsiroona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

39 And by whatsoever you see not,

Pickthall

39 And all that ye see not

Transliteration

40 Innahu laqawlu rasoolin kareemin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

40 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].

Pickthall

40 That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger.

Transliteration

41 Wama huwa biqawli shaAAirin qaleelan ma tuminoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

41 It is not the word of a poet: little is that you believe!

Pickthall

41 It is not poet's speech - little is it that ye believe!

Transliteration

42 Wala biqawli kahinin qaleelan ma tathakkaroona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

42 Nor is it the word of a soothsayer (or a foreteller): little is that you remember!

Pickthall

42 Nor diviner's speech - little is it that ye remember!

Transliteration

43 Tanzeelun min rabbi alAAalameena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

43 This is the Revelation sent down from the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists).

Pickthall

43 It is a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.

Transliteration

44 Walaw taqawwala AAalayna baAAda alaqaweeli

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

44 And if he (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) had forged a false saying concerning Us (Allah جل جلاله),

Pickthall

44 And if he had invented false sayings concerning Us,

Transliteration

45 Laakhathna minhu bialyameeni

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

45 We surely would have seized him by his right hand (or with power and might),

Pickthall

45 We assuredly had taken him by the right hand

Transliteration

46 Thumma laqataAAna minhu alwateena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

46 And then We certainly would have cut off his life artery (aorta),

Pickthall

46 And then severed his life - artery,

Transliteration

47 Fama minkum min ahadin AAanhu hajizeena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

47 And none of you could have withheld Us from (punishing) him.

Pickthall

47 And not one of you could have held Us off from him.

Transliteration

48 Wainnahu latathkiratun lilmuttaqeena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

48 And verily, this (Qur'an) is a Reminder for the Muttaqun (the pious. See V.2:2).

Pickthall

48 And lo! it is a warrant unto those who ward off (evil).

Transliteration

49 Wainna lanaAAlamu anna minkum mukaththibeena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

49 And verily, We know that there are some among you that belie (this Qur'an). (Tafsir At-Tabari)

Pickthall

49 And lo! We know that some among you will deny (it).

Transliteration

50 Wainnahu lahasratun AAala alkafireena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

50 And indeed it (this Qur'an) will be an anguish for the disbelievers (on the Day of Resurrection).

Pickthall

50 And lo! it is indeed an anguish for the disbelievers.

Transliteration

51 Wainnahu lahaqqu alyaqeeni

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

51 And verily, it (this Qur'an) is an absolute truth with certainty.

Pickthall

51 And lo! it is absolute truth.

Transliteration

52 Fasabbih biismi rabbika alAAatheemi

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

52 So glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most Great.

Pickthall

52 So glorify the name of thy Tremendous Lord.