Al-Haqqah

The Inevitable Reality

What is the Inevitable Reality

And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality

Thamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity

So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast]

And as for 'Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind

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

Then do you see of them any remains

And there came Pharaoh and those before him and the overturned cities with sin

And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with a seizure exceeding [in severity]

Indeed, when the water overflowed, We carried your ancestors in the sailing ship

That We might make it for you a reminder and [that] a conscious ear would be conscious of it

Then when the Horn is blown with one blast

And the earth and the mountains are lifted and leveled with one blow

Then on that Day, the Resurrection will occur

And the heaven will split [open], for that Day it is infirm

And the angels are at its edges. And there will bear the Throne of your Lord above them, that Day, eight [of them]

That Day, you will be exhibited [for judgement]; not hidden among you is anything concealed

So as for he who is given his record in his right hand, he will say, "Here, read my record

Indeed, I was certain that I would be meeting my account

So he will be in a pleasant life

In an elevated garden

Its [fruit] to be picked hanging near

[They will be told], "Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you put forth in the days past

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

And had not known what is my account

I wish my death had been the decisive one

My wealth has not availed me

Gone from me is my authority

[Allah will say], "Seize him and shackle him

Then into Hellfire drive him

Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits insert him

Indeed, he did not used to believe in Allah, the Most Great

Nor did he encourage the feeding of the poor

So there is not for him here this Day any devoted friend

Nor any food except from the discharge of wounds

None will eat it except the sinners

So I swear by what you see

And what you do not see

[That] indeed, the Qur'an is the word of a noble Messenger

And it is not the word of a poet; little do you believe

Nor the word of a soothsayer; little do you remember

[It is] a revelation from the Lord of the worlds

And if Muhammad had made up about Us some [false] sayings

We would have seized him by the right hand

Then We would have cut from him the aorta

And there is no one of you who could prevent [Us] from him

And indeed, the Qur'an is a reminder for the righteous

And indeed, We know that among you are deniers

And indeed, it will be [a cause of] regret upon the disbelievers

And indeed, it is the truth of certainty

So exalt the name of your Lord, the Most Great