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The Sure Reality!
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The Inevitable Reality -
Al Haqqa
Chapter 69, 52 verses
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What is the Sure Reality?
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What is the Inevitable Reality?
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And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
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And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
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The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
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Thamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity.
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But the Thamud, - they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
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So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast].
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And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
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And as for 'Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind
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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!
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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.
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Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
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Then do you see of them any remains?
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And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
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And there came Pharaoh and those before him and the overturned cities with sin.
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And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
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And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with a seizure exceeding [in severity].
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We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
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Indeed, when the water overflowed, We carried your ancestors in the sailing ship
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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.
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That We might make it for you a reminder and [that] a conscious ear would be conscious of it.
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Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
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Then when the Horn is blown with one blast
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And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke, -
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And the earth and the mountains are lifted and leveled with one blow -
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On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
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Then on that Day, the Resurrection will occur,
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And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
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And the heaven will split [open], for that Day it is infirm.
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And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
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And the angels are at its edges. And there will bear the Throne of your Lord above them, that Day, eight [of them].
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That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
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That Day, you will be exhibited [for judgement]; not hidden among you is anything concealed.
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Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!
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So as for he who is given his record in his right hand, he will say, "Here, read my record!
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"I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
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Indeed, I was certain that I would be meeting my account."
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And he will be in a life of Bliss,
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So he will be in a pleasant life -
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In a Garden on high,
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In an elevated garden,
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The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
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Its [fruit] to be picked hanging near.
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"Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
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[They will be told], "Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you put forth in the days past."
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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!
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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
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"And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
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And had not known what is my account.
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"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
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I wish my death had been the decisive one.
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"Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
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My wealth has not availed me.
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"My power has perished from me!"...
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Gone from me is my authority."
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(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
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[Allah will say], "Seize him and shackle him.
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"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
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Then into Hellfire drive him.
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"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
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Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits insert him."
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"This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
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Indeed, he did not used to believe in Allah, the Most Great,
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"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
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Nor did he encourage the feeding of the poor.
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"So no friend hath he here this Day.
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So there is not for him here this Day any devoted friend
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"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
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Nor any food except from the discharge of wounds;
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"Which none do eat but those in sin."
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None will eat it except the sinners.
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So I do call to witness what ye see,
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So I swear by what you see
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And what ye see not,
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And what you do not see
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That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
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[That] indeed, the Qur'an is the word of a noble Messenger.
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It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
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And it is not the word of a poet; little do you believe.
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Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
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Nor the word of a soothsayer; little do you remember.
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(This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
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[It is] a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
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And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
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And if Muhammad had made up about Us some [false] sayings,
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We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
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We would have seized him by the right hand;
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And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
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Then We would have cut from him the aorta.
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Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
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And there is no one of you who could prevent [Us] from him.
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But verily this is a Message for the Allah - fearing.
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And indeed, the Qur'an is a reminder for the righteous.
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And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
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And indeed, We know that among you are deniers.
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But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
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And indeed, it will be [a cause of] regret upon the disbelievers.
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But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
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And indeed, it is the truth of certainty.
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So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.
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So exalt the name of your Lord, the Most Great.