Chapter 69, 52 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The Inevitable (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)!
The Sure Reality!
What is the Inevitable?
What is the Sure Reality?
And what will make you know what the Inevitable is?
And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
Thamud and 'Ad people denied the Qari'ah (the striking Hour of Judgement)!
The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the awful cry!
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!
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!
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?
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.
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.
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)]
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!"
"I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
So he shall be in a life, well-pleasing.
And he will be in a life of Bliss,
In a lofty Paradise,
In a Garden on high,
The fruits in bunches whereof will be low and near at hand.
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!
"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!
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!
"And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
"Would that it had been my end (death)!
"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
"My wealth has not availed me;
"Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
"My power (and arguments to defend myself) have gone from me!"
"My power has perished from me!"...
(It will be said): "Seize him and fetter him;
(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
Then throw him in the blazing Fire.
"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
"Then fasten him with a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits!"
"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
Verily, he used not to believe in Allah, the Most Great,
"This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
And urged not on the feeding of Al-Miskin (the poor).
"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
So no friend has he here this Day,
"So no friend hath he here this Day.
Nor any food except filth from the washing of wounds.
"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
None will eat it except the Khati'un (sinners, disbelievers, polytheists).
"Which none do eat but those in sin."
So I swear by whatsoever you see,
So I do call to witness what ye see,
And by whatsoever you see not,
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].
That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
It is not the word of a poet: little is that you believe!
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!
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).
(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),
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),
We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
And then We certainly would have cut off his life artery (aorta),
And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
And none of you could have withheld Us from (punishing) him.
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).
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)
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).
But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
And verily, it (this Qur'an) is an absolute truth with certainty.
But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
So glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most Great.
So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.