Chapter 69, 52 verses
The Inevitable Reality -
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحاقة
The Sure Reality!
The sure calamity!
What is the Inevitable Reality?
ما الحاقة
What is the Sure Reality?
What is the sure calamity!
And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
وما أدراك ما الحاقة
And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!
Thamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity.
كذبت ثمود وعاد بالقارعة
The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie.
So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast].
فأما ثمود فأهلكوا بالطاغية
But the Thamud, - they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
Then as to Samood, they were destroyed by an excessively severe punishment.
And as for 'Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind
وأما عاد فأهلكوا بريح صرصر عاتية
And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent blast.
Which Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.
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!
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.
Then do you see of them any remains?
فهل ترى لهم من باقية
Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
Do you then see of them one remaining?
And there came Pharaoh and those before him and the overturned cities with sin.
وجاء فرعون ومن قبله والمؤتفكات بالخاطئة
And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
And Firon and those before him and the overthrown cities continuously committed sins.
And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with a seizure exceeding [in severity].
فعصوا رسول ربهم فأخذهم أخذة رابية
And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
And they disobeyed the Apostle of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment.
Indeed, when the water overflowed, We carried your ancestors in the sailing ship
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),
Surely We bore you up in the ship when the water rose high,
That We might make it for you a reminder and [that] a conscious ear would be conscious of it.
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.
So that We may make it a reminder to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.
Then when the Horn is blown with one blast
فإذا نفخ في الصور نفخة واحدة
Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
And when the trumpet is blown with a single blast,
And the earth and the mountains are lifted and leveled with one blow -
وحملت الأرض والجبال فدكتا دكة واحدة
And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke, -
And the earth and the mountains are borne away and crushed with a single crushing.
Then on that Day, the Resurrection will occur,
فيومئذ وقعت الواقعة
On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
On that day shall the great event come to pass,
And the heaven will split [open], for that Day it is infirm.
وانشقت السماء فهي يومئذ واهية
And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that day it shall be frail,
And the angels are at its edges. And there will bear the Throne of your Lord above them, that Day, eight [of 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.
And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and above them eight shall bear on that day your Lord's power.
That Day, you will be exhibited [for judgement]; not hidden among you is anything concealed.
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.
On that day you shall be exposed to view - - no secret of yours shall remain hidden.
So as for he who is given his record in his right hand, he 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!
Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say: Lo! read my book:
Indeed, I was certain that I would be meeting my account."
إني ظننت أني ملاق حسابيه
"I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
Surely I knew that I shall meet my account.
So he will be in a pleasant life -
فهو في عيشة راضية
And he will be in a life of Bliss,
So he shall be in a life of pleasure,
In an elevated garden,
في جنة عالية
In a Garden on high,
In a lofty garden,
Its [fruit] to be picked hanging near.
قطوفها دانية
The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
The fruits of which are near at hand:
[They will be told], "Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you put forth in the 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!"
Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by.
But as for he who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish 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 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:
And had not known what is my account.
ولم أدر ما حسابيه
"And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
And I had not known what my account was:
I wish my death had been the decisive one.
يا ليتها كانت القاضية
"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
O would that it 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 wealth has availed me nothing:
Gone from me is my authority."
هلك عني سلطانيه
"My power has perished from me!"...
My authority is gone away from me.
[Allah will say], "Seize him and shackle him.
خذوه فغلوه
(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,
Then into Hellfire drive him.
ثم الجحيم صلوه
"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
Then cast him into the burning fire,
Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits insert him."
ثم في سلسلة ذرعها سبعون ذراعا فاسلكوه
"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.
Indeed, he did not used to believe in Allah, the Most Great,
إنه كان لا يؤمن بالله العظيم
"This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,
Nor did he encourage the feeding of the poor.
ولا يحض على طعام المسكين
"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.
So there is not for him here this Day any devoted friend
فليس له اليوم هاهنا حميم
"So no friend hath he here this Day.
Therefore he has not here today a true friend,
Nor any food except from the discharge of wounds;
ولا طعام إلا من غسلين
"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
Nor any food except refuse,
None will eat it except the sinners.
لا يأكله إلا الخاطئون
"Which none do eat but those in sin."
Which none but the wrongdoers eat.
So I swear by what you see
فلا أقسم بما تبصرون
So I do call to witness what ye see,
But nay! I swear by that which you see,
And what you do not see
وما لا تبصرون
And what ye see not,
And that which you do not see.
[That] indeed, the Qur'an is the word of a noble Messenger.
إنه لقول رسول كريم
That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honored Apostle,
And it is not the word of a poet; little do you believe.
وما هو بقول شاعر ۚ قليلا ما تؤمنون
It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
And it is not the word of a poet; little is it that you believe;
Nor the word of a soothsayer; little do you remember.
ولا بقول كاهن ۚ قليلا ما تذكرون
Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
Nor the word of a soothsayer; little is it that you mind.
[It is] a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
تنزيل من رب العالمين
(This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
And if Muhammad had made up about Us some [false] sayings,
ولو تقول علينا بعض الأقاويل
And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings,
We would have seized him by the right hand;
لأخذنا منه باليمين
We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
We would certainly have seized him by the right hand,
Then We would have cut from him the aorta.
ثم لقطعنا منه الوتين
And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
Then We would certainly have cut off his aorta.
And there is no one of you who could prevent [Us] from him.
فما منكم من أحد عنه حاجزين
Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.
And indeed, the Qur'an is a reminder for the righteous.
وإنه لتذكرة للمتقين
But verily this is a Message for the Allah - fearing.
And most surely it is a reminder for those who guard (against evil).
And indeed, We know that among you are deniers.
وإنا لنعلم أن منكم مكذبين
And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
And most surely We know that some of you are rejecters.
And indeed, it will be [a cause of] regret upon the disbelievers.
وإنه لحسرة على الكافرين
But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
And most surely it is a great grief to the unbelievers.
And indeed, it is the truth of certainty.
وإنه لحق اليقين
But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
And most surely it is the true certainty
So exalt the name of your Lord, the Most Great.
فسبح باسم ربك العظيم
So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.
Therefore - glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.