Al-Haqqah

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

69:1

al-ḥāqatu

The Inevitable Hour!

69:2

mā l-ḥāqatu

What is the Inevitable Hour?

69:3

wamā adrāka mā l-ḥāqatu

And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?

69:4

kadhabat thamūdu waʿādun bil-qāriʿati

˹Both˺ Thamûd and ’Ȃd denied the Striking Disaster.

69:5

fa-ammā thamūdu fa-uh'likū bil-ṭāghiyati

As for Thamûd, they were destroyed by an overwhelming blast.

69:6

wa-ammā ʿādun fa-uh'likū birīḥin ṣarṣarin ʿātiyatin

And as for ’Ȃd, they were destroyed by a furious, bitter wind

69:7

sakharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layālin wathamāniyata ayyāmin ḥusūman fatarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā ka-annahum aʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyatin

which Allah unleashed on them non-stop for seven nights and eight days, so that you would have seen its people lying dead like trunks of uprooted palm trees.

69:8

fahal tarā lahum min bāqiyatin

Do you see any of them left alive?

69:9

wajāa fir'ʿawnu waman qablahu wal-mu'tafikātu bil-khāṭi-ati

Also, Pharaoh and those before him, and ˹the people of˺ the overturned cities ˹of Lot˺ indulged in sin,

69:10

faʿaṣaw rasūla rabbihim fa-akhadhahum akhdhatan rābiyatan

each disobeying their Lord’s messenger, so He seized them with a crushing grip.

69:11

innā lammā ṭaghā l-māu ḥamalnākum fī l-jāriyati

Indeed, when the floodwater had overflowed, We carried you in the floating Ark ˹with Noah˺,

69:12

linajʿalahā lakum tadhkiratan wataʿiyahā udhunun wāʿiyatun

so that We may make this a reminder to you, and that attentive ears may grasp it.

69:13

fa-idhā nufikha fī l-ṣūri nafkhatun wāḥidatun

At last, when the Trumpet will be blown with one blast,

69:14

waḥumilati l-arḍu wal-jibālu fadukkatā dakkatan wāḥidatan

and the earth and mountains will be lifted up and crushed with one blow,

69:15

fayawma-idhin waqaʿati l-wāqiʿatu

on that Day the Inevitable Event will have come to pass.

69:16

wa-inshaqqati l-samāu fahiya yawma-idhin wāhiyatun

The sky will then be so torn that it will be frail,

69:17

wal-malaku ʿalā arjāihā wayaḥmilu ʿarsha rabbika fawqahum yawma-idhin thamāniyatun

with the angels on its sides. On that Day eight ˹mighty angels˺ will bear the Throne of your Lord above them.

69:18

yawma-idhin tuʿ'raḍūna lā takhfā minkum khāfiyatun

You will then be presented ˹before Him for judgment˺, and none of your secrets will stay hidden.

69:19

fa-ammā man ūtiya kitābahu biyamīnihi fayaqūlu hāumu iq'raū kitābiyah

As for those given their records in their right hand, they will cry ˹happily˺, “Here ˹everyone˺! Read my record!

69:20

innī ẓanantu annī mulāqin ḥisābiyah

I surely knew I would face my reckoning.”

69:21

fahuwa fī ʿīshatin rāḍiyatin

They will be in a life of bliss,

69:22

fī jannatin ʿāliyatin

in an elevated Garden,

69:23

quṭūfuhā dāniyatun

whose fruit will hang within reach.

69:24

kulū wa-ish'rabū hanīan bimā aslaftum fī l-ayāmi l-khāliyati

˹They will be told,˺ “Eat and drink joyfully for what you did in the days gone by.”

69:25

wa-ammā man ūtiya kitābahu bishimālihi fayaqūlu yālaytanī lam ūta kitābiyah

And as for those given their record in their left hand, they will cry ˹bitterly˺, “I wish I had not been given my record,

69:26

walam adri mā ḥisābiyah

nor known anything of my reckoning!

69:27

yālaytahā kānati l-qāḍiyata

I wish death was the end!

69:28

mā aghnā ʿannī māliyah

My wealth has not benefited me!

69:29

halaka ʿannī sul'ṭāniyah

My authority has been stripped from me.”

69:30

khudhūhu faghullūhu

˹It will be said,˺ “Seize and shackle them,

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