| | George Sale rendition of Surah The Reality, The Inevitable(al-Haqqah)
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| 69:1 | | The infallible |
| 69:2 | | What is the infallible |
| 69:3 | | And what shall cause thee to understand what the infallible is |
| 69:4 | | The tribes of Thamud and Ad denied as a falsehood the day which shall strike men's hearts with terror |
| 69:5 | | But Thamud were destroyed by a terrible noise |
| 69:6 | | And Ad were destroyed by a roaring and furious wind |
| 69:7 | | which God caused to assail them for seven nights and eight days successively: Thou mightest have seen people, during the same, lying prostrate, as though they had been the roots of hollow palm-trees |
| 69:8 | | and couldest thou have seen any of them remaining |
| 69:9 | | Pharaoh also, and those who were before him, and the cities which were overthrown, were guilty of sin |
| 69:10 | | and they severally were disobedient to the apostle of their Lord; wherefore He chastised them with an abundant chastisement |
| 69:11 | | When the water of the deluge arose, We carried you in the ark which swam thereon |
| 69:12 | | that We might make the same a memorial unto you, and the retaining ear might retain it |
| 69:13 | | And when one blast shall sound the trumpet |
| 69:14 | | and the earth shall be moved from its place, and the mountains also, and shall be dashed in pieces at one stroke |
| 69:15 | | On that day the inevitable hour of judgment shall suddenly come |
| 69:16 | | and the heavens shall cleave in sunder, and shall fall in pieces, on that day |
| 69:17 | | And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and eight shall bear the throne of thy Lord above them, on that day |
| 69:18 | | On that day ye shall be presented before the judgment seat of God; and none of your secret actions shall be hidden |
| 69:19 | | And he who shall have his book delivered into his right hand, shall say, take ye, read this my book |
| 69:20 | | verily I thought that I should be brought to this my account |
| 69:21 | | He shall lead a pleasing life |
| 69:22 | | in a lofty garden |
| 69:23 | | the fruits whereof shall be near to gather |
| 69:24 | | Eat and drink with easy digestion; because of the good works which ye sent before you, in the days which are past |
| 69:25 | | But he who shall have his book delivered into his left hand, shall say, O that I had not received this my book |
| 69:26 | | and that I had not known what this my account was |
| 69:27 | | O that death had made an end of me |
| 69:28 | | My riches have not profited me |
| 69:29 | | and my power is passed from me |
| 69:30 | | And God shall say to the keepers of hell, take him, and bind him |
| 69:31 | | and cast him into hell to be burned |
| 69:32 | | then put him into a chain of the length of seventy cubits |
| 69:33 | | Because he believed not in the great God |
| 69:34 | | and was not solicitous to feed the poor |
| 69:35 | | Wherefore this day he shall have no friend here |
| 69:36 | | nor any food, but the filthy corruption flowing from the bodies of the damned |
| 69:37 | | which none shall eat but the sinners |
| 69:38 | | I swear by that which ye see |
| 69:39 | | and that which ye see not |
| 69:40 | | that this is the discourse of an honourable apostle |
| 69:41 | | and not the discourse of a poet: How little do ye believe |
| 69:42 | | Neither is it the discourse of a soothsayer: How little are ye admonished |
| 69:43 | | It is a revelation from the Lord of all creatures |
| 69:44 | | If Mohammed had forged any part of these discourses concerning Us |
| 69:45 | | verily We had taken him by the right hand |
| 69:46 | | and had cut in sunder the vein of his heart |
| 69:47 | | neither would We have withheld any of you from chastising him |
| 69:48 | | And verily this book is an admonition unto the pious |
| 69:49 | | and We well know that there are some of you who charge the same with imposture |
| 69:50 | | But it shall surely be an occasion of grievous sighing unto the infidels |
| 69:51 | | for it is the truth of a certainty |
| 69:52 | | Wherefore praise the name of thy Lord, the great God |
