Chapter 69, 52 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The Inevitable (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)!
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحاقة
The Sure Reality!
What is the Inevitable?
ما الحاقة
What is the Sure Reality?
And what will make you know what the Inevitable is?
وما أدراك ما الحاقة
And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
Thamud and 'Ad people denied the Qari'ah (the striking Hour of Judgement)!
كذبت ثمود وعاد بالقارعة
The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the awful cry!
فأما ثمود فأهلكوا بالطاغية
But the Thamud, - they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
And as for 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious violent wind!
وأما عاد فأهلكوا بريح صرصر عاتية
And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
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!
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!
Do you see any remnants of them?
فهل ترى لهم من باقية
Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
And Fir'aun (Pharaoh), and those before him, and the cities overthrown [the towns of the people of [Lut (Lot)] committed sin.
وجاء فرعون ومن قبله والمؤتفكات بالخاطئة
And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
And they disobeyed their Lord's Messenger, so He seized them with a strong punishment.
فعصوا رسول ربهم فأخذهم أخذة رابية
And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
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)]
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),
That We might make it (Noah's ship) an admonition for you and that it might be retained by the retaining ears.
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.
Then when the Trumpet will be blown with one blowing (the first one).
فإذا نفخ في الصور نفخة واحدة
Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
And the earth and the mountains shall be removed from their places, and crushed with a single crushing.
وحملت الأرض والجبال فدكتا دكة واحدة
And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke, -
Then on that Day shall the (Great) Event befall.
فيومئذ وقعت الواقعة
On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
And the heaven will be rent asunder, for that Day it (the heaven) will be frail and torn up.
وانشقت السماء فهي يومئذ واهية
And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
And the angels will be on its sides, and eight angels will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord above them.
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.
That Day shall you be brought to Judgement, not a secret of you will be hidden.
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.
Then as for him who will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Here! read my Record!
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!
"Surely, I did believe that I shall meet my Account!"
إني ظننت أني ملاق حسابيه
"I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
So he shall be in a life, well-pleasing.
فهو في عيشة راضية
And he will be in a life of Bliss,
In a lofty Paradise,
في جنة عالية
In a Garden on high,
The fruits in bunches whereof will be low and near at hand.
قطوفها دانية
The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
Eat and drink at ease for that which you have sent on before you in days past!
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!"
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!
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 that I had never known how my Account is!
ولم أدر ما حسابيه
"And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
"Would that it had been my end (death)!
يا ليتها كانت القاضية
"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
"My wealth has not availed me;
ما أغنى عني ماليه ۜ
"Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
"My power (and arguments to defend myself) have gone from me!"
هلك عني سلطانيه
"My power has perished from me!"...
(It will be said): "Seize him and fetter him;
خذوه فغلوه
(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
Then throw him in the blazing Fire.
ثم الجحيم صلوه
"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
"Then fasten him with a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits!"
ثم في سلسلة ذرعها سبعون ذراعا فاسلكوه
"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
Verily, he used not to believe in Allah, the Most Great,
إنه كان لا يؤمن بالله العظيم
"This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
And urged not on the feeding of Al-Miskin (the poor).
ولا يحض على طعام المسكين
"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
So no friend has he here this Day,
فليس له اليوم هاهنا حميم
"So no friend hath he here this Day.
Nor any food except filth from the washing of wounds.
ولا طعام إلا من غسلين
"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
None will eat it except the Khati'un (sinners, disbelievers, polytheists).
لا يأكله إلا الخاطئون
"Which none do eat but those in sin."
So I swear by whatsoever you see,
فلا أقسم بما تبصرون
So I do call to witness what ye see,
And by whatsoever you see not,
وما لا تبصرون
And what ye see not,
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].
إنه لقول رسول كريم
That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
It is not the word of a poet: little is that you believe!
وما هو بقول شاعر ۚ قليلا ما تؤمنون
It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
Nor is it the word of a soothsayer (or a foreteller): little is that you remember!
ولا بقول كاهن ۚ قليلا ما تذكرون
Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
This is the Revelation sent down from the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists).
تنزيل من رب العالمين
(This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
And if he (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) had forged a false saying concerning Us (Allah جل جلاله),
ولو تقول علينا بعض الأقاويل
And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
We surely would have seized him by his right hand (or with power and might),
لأخذنا منه باليمين
We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
And then We certainly would have cut off his life artery (aorta),
ثم لقطعنا منه الوتين
And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
And none of you could have withheld Us from (punishing) him.
فما منكم من أحد عنه حاجزين
Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
And verily, this (Qur'an) is a Reminder for the Muttaqun (the pious. See V.2:2).
وإنه لتذكرة للمتقين
But verily this is a Message for the Allah - fearing.
And verily, We know that there are some among you that belie (this Qur'an). (Tafsir At-Tabari)
وإنا لنعلم أن منكم مكذبين
And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
And indeed it (this Qur'an) will be an anguish for the disbelievers (on the Day of Resurrection).
وإنه لحسرة على الكافرين
But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
And verily, it (this Qur'an) is an absolute truth with certainty.
وإنه لحق اليقين
But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
So glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most Great.
فسبح باسم ربك العظيم
So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.