al-Haqqah (The Reality, The Inevitable) at IslamAwakened.com

69:1 The Inevitable Truth

69:2 What is the Inevitable Truth

69:3 And what makes you realize what the Inevitable Truth is

69:4 Thamud and c?d cried lies to the Smiter

69:5 So, as for Tham?d, they were made to perish by the inordinate (storm)

69:6 And as for c?d, they were then made to perish by a wind most clamorous (and) furious (Literally: rebellious)

69:7 He subjected it against them seven nights and eight days in gruesome succession, so that you might have seen the people laid overthrown in it as if they were the hollow stumps of devastated palm- trees

69:8 So do you see any remnant of them

69:9 And Firaawn (Pharaoh) came, (i.e., after Thamud and Aad) and whoever were before him and the (cities of) falsehood, (i.e., the people of Lut "Lot") with their (habitual) sinfulness

69:10 Then they disobeyed the Messenger of their Lord, so He took them (away) with a surpassing grip (Literally: swelling taking)

69:11 Surely, as soon as the water (s) overflowed, (Literally: was inordinate) We carried you in the running ship

69:12 That We might make it a Reminder for you and for heeding ear (s) to heed

69:13 So, when the Trumpet is blown with one blowing

69:14 And the earth and the mountains are borne up, then they are pounded one pounding

69:15 Then, upon that Day, the Inevitable Event will be fall

69:16 And the heaven will be cloven. So, upon that Day it will be (very) frail

69:17 And the (commanded) Angels will be upon its dimensions, and upon that Day eight will bear above them the Throne of your Lord

69:18 Upon that Day you will be set before (them), not one concealed (secret) of yours will be concealed

69:19 So, as for him whose book is brought to him in (Literally: with) his right hand, he will then say, " (Now), here you are! Read my book

69:20 Surely I expected that I should meet my reckoning."

69:21 So he will be in a satisfied livelihood

69:22 In an exalted Garden

69:23 Its picked (fruits) (are) within (easy) reach

69:24 "Eat and drink rejoicing with wholesome appetite for what you previously did in the days gone-by."

69:25 And as for him whose book is brought to him in his left (hand), he will then say, "oh, would that my book had not been brought to me

69:26 And that I had not realized my reckoning

69:27 Oh, would that it had been the decreed end

69:28 In no way has my wealth availed me

69:29 My (own) all-binding authority has perished away from me."

69:30 "Take him, and shackle him up

69:31 Thereafter roast him in Hell-Fire

69:32 Thereafter in a chain of seventy cubits' length insert him

69:33 Surely he used not to believe in Allah The Ever-Magnificent

69:34 And he did not urge (offering) food to the indigent

69:35 So today he has not here now (any) intimate (friend)

69:36 Neither any food except of foul refuse

69:37 (That) none except the sinners eat."

69:38 Yet no, I swear by whatever you behold

69:39 And whatever you do not behold

69:40 Surely it is indeed the saying of an honorable Messenger

69:41 And in no way is it the saying of a poet- little do you believe

69:42 Nor the saying of a soothsayer- little are you mindful of

69:43 A successive sending down from The Lord of the worlds

69:44 And if he had talked up against Us any (Literally: some) (false) sayings

69:45 Indeed We would have taken (him) by the right hand

69:46 Thereafter indeed We would have cut (off) (his) aorta

69:47 Then in no way would anyone of you (be) debarring (Us) from him

69:48 And surely it is indeed a Reminder to the pious

69:49 And surely We indeed know that (some) among you are beliers

69:50 And surely it is indeed a (source of) regret to the disbelievers

69:51 And surely it is indeed the Truth of certitude

69:52 So extol with the Name of your Lord, The Ever-Magnificent