| | T.B.Irving rendition of Surah The Reality, The Inevitable(al-Haqqah)
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| 69:1 | | Reality! |
| 69:2 | | What is reality? |
| 69:3 | | What will make you recognize what reality is like? |
| 69:4 | | Thamud and Ad denied [they would face] disaster. |
| 69:5 | | As for Thamud, they were wiped out by the Thunderbolt. |
| 69:6 | | As for Ad, they were wiped out by a furiously howling gale. |
| 69:7 | | He loosed it on them for seven grueling nights and eight days. You would see folk collapsing in it as if they were hollow palm trunks. |
| 69:8 | | Do you see any survivors from them? |
| 69:9 | | Pharaoh came, as well as those before him, and the places Overthrown through [their own] misdeeds; |
| 69:10 | | they defied their Lord´s messenger, so He seized them with a tightening grip. |
| 69:11 | | When the water overflowed, We loaded you on the vessel, |
| 69:12 | | so We might set it up as a Reminder for you and so (your) attentive ears might retain it. |
| 69:13 | | When a single blast is blown on the Trumpet |
| 69:14 | | and the earth is lifted up along with the mountains and they are both flattened by a single blow, |
| 69:15 | | the Event will take place on that day! |
| 69:16 | | The sky will split open and seem flimsy that day; |
| 69:17 | | while angels [will stand] along its edges. Eight [in all] will bear your Lord´s throne above them on that day. |
| 69:18 | | On that day you will (all) be arraigned; no secret of yours will remain hidden. |
| 69:19 | | Anyone who is given his book in his right hand will say: "Here, read my book! |
| 69:20 | | I always thought I would face my reckoning!" |
| 69:21 | | He will be in pleasant living |
| 69:22 | | in a lofty garden |
| 69:23 | | whose clusters [of fruit] will hang within easy reach. |
| 69:24 | | "Eat and drink to your heart´s content because of what you sent on ahead in bygone days." |
| 69:25 | | However anyone who is given his book in his left hand will say: "It´s too bad for me; if only my book had not been given me, |
| 69:26 | | I would not have known my reckoning! |
| 69:27 | | If it had only been the Sentence [once and for all]! |
| 69:28 | | My money has not helped me out; |
| 69:29 | | my authority has been wiped out on me." |
| 69:30 | | "Take him off and handcuff him! |
| 69:31 | | Then let Hades roast him! |
| 69:32 | | Then padlock him to a chain gang seventy yards long. |
| 69:33 | | He did not believe in God Almighty |
| 69:34 | | nor ever urge [others) to feed the needy. |
| 69:35 | | He has no close friend here today, |
| 69:36 | | nor any food except for some garbage |
| 69:37 | | which only sinners eat." |
| 69:38 | | Yet I swear by whatever you observe |
| 69:39 | | and what you do not observe, |
| 69:40 | | that it is a statement [made] by a noble messenger. |
| 69:41 | | It is no poet´s statement; how little do you believe! |
| 69:42 | | Nor is it some fortune teller´s statement; how little do you think things over! |
| 69:43 | | [It is] something sent down by the Lord of the Universe. |
| 69:44 | | If he had mouthed some [false] statements about Us, |
| 69:45 | | We would have seized him by the right hand; |
| 69:46 | | then cut off his main artery. |
| 69:47 | | Not one of you would have prevented it! |
| 69:48 | | It is a Reminder for the heedful |
| 69:49 | | We know too that some of you will reject it. |
| 69:50 | | It means despair for disbelievers; |
| 69:51 | | yet it is the absolute Truth! |
| 69:52 | | So hymn your Lord´s almighty name! |
