69. Surah Al-Haaqqa

اَلْحَآقَّةُۙ ﴿١﴾Open ayah 69:1 in the Quran reader

The Inevitable! 1

مَا الْحَآقَّةُۚ ﴿٢﴾Open ayah 69:2 in the Quran reader

What is the Inevitable?

وَ مَاۤ اَدْرٰىكَ مَا الْحَآقَّةُؕ ﴿٣﴾Open ayah 69:3 in the Quran reader

And what do you know what the Inevitable is? 2

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُوْدُ وَ عَادٌۢ بِالْقَارِعَةِ ﴿٤﴾Open ayah 69:4 in the Quran reader

Thamud 3 and `Ad belied the coming of the sudden calamity: 4

فَاَمَّا ثَمُوْدُ فَاُهْلِكُوْا بِالطَّاغِیَةِ ﴿٥﴾Open ayah 69:5 in the Quran reader

Thamud were destroyed by a violent catastrophe 5

وَ اَمَّا عَادٌ فَاُهْلِكُوْا بِرِیْحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِیَةٍۙ ﴿٦﴾Open ayah 69:6 in the Quran reader

as for `Ad, they were destroyed by a furious windstorm;

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَیْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَیَالٍ وَّ ثَمٰنِیَةَ اَیَّامٍ١ۙ حُسُوْمًا١ۙ فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِیْهَا صَرْعٰى١ۙ كَاَنَّهُمْ اَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِیَةٍۚ ﴿٧﴾Open ayah 69:7 in the Quran reader

Allah imposed it on them for seven nights and eight days continuously. (Had you been there) you would have seen them lying prostrate as though they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

فَهَلْ تَرٰى لَهُمْ مِّنْۢ بَاقِیَةٍ ﴿٨﴾Open ayah 69:8 in the Quran reader

Now do you see any of them still surviving?

وَ جَآءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَ مَنْ قَبْلَهٗ وَ الْمُؤْتَفِكٰتُ بِالْخَاطِئَةِۚ ﴿٩﴾Open ayah 69:9 in the Quran reader

And the same great crime did Pharaoh and the people before him and the overturned settlements 6 commit.

فَعَصَوْا رَسُوْلَ رَبِّهِمْ فَاَخَذَهُمْ اَخْذَةً رَّابِیَةً ﴿١٠﴾Open ayah 69:10 in the Quran reader

They all disobeyed the Messenger of their Lord and He seized them with a terrible grip.

اِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا الْمَآءُ حَمَلْنٰكُمْ فِی الْجَارِیَةِۙ ﴿١١﴾Open ayah 69:11 in the Quran reader

When the Flood waters rose abnormally high, 7 We boarded you in the Ark, 8

لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَّ تَعِیَهَاۤ اُذُنٌ وَّاعِیَةٌ ﴿١٢﴾Open ayah 69:12 in the Quran reader

that We may make the event a warning for you and that the retaining ears may retain its memory. 9

فَاِذَا نُفِخَ فِی الصُّوْرِ نَفْخَةٌ وَّاحِدَةٌۙ ﴿١٣﴾Open ayah 69:13 in the Quran reader

Then, 10 when the Trumpet is blown once,

وَّ حُمِلَتِ الْاَرْضُ وَ الْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَّاحِدَةًۙ ﴿١٤﴾Open ayah 69:14 in the Quran reader

and the earth and the mountains are razed and crushed into pieces with a single stroke,

فَیَوْمَئِذٍ وَّقَعَتِ الْوَاقِعَةُۙ ﴿١٥﴾Open ayah 69:15 in the Quran reader

on that Day shall the Inevitable happen.

وَ انْشَقَّتِ السَّمَآءُ فَهِیَ یَوْمَئِذٍ وَّاهِیَةٌۙ ﴿١٦﴾Open ayah 69:16 in the Quran reader

On that Day the heaven shall split asunder, and its system shall loosen.

وَّ الْمَلَكُ عَلٰۤى اَرْجَآئِهَا١ؕ وَ یَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ یَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمٰنِیَةٌؕ ﴿١٧﴾Open ayah 69:17 in the Quran reader

The angels shall be on its sides and eight of them on that Day shall be upholding the Throne of your Lord, above them. 11

یَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُوْنَ لَا تَخْفٰى مِنْكُمْ خَافِیَةٌ ﴿١٨﴾Open ayah 69:18 in the Quran reader

That will be the Day when you will be brought forth: no secret of yours will remain hidden.

فَاَمَّا مَنْ اُوْتِیَ كِتٰبَهٗ بِیَمِیْنِهٖ١ۙ فَیَقُوْلُ هَآؤُمُ اقْرَءُوْا كِتٰبِیَهْۚ ﴿١٩﴾Open ayah 69:19 in the Quran reader

Then whoso is given his record in his right hand, 12 shall say: "Look! Read my record. 13

اِنِّیْ ظَنَنْتُ اَنِّیْ مُلٰقٍ حِسَابِیَهْۚ ﴿٢٠﴾Open ayah 69:20 in the Quran reader

I knew that! would certainly be getting my account," 14

فَهُوَ فِیْ عِیْشَةٍ رَّاضِیَةٍۙ ﴿٢١﴾Open ayah 69:21 in the Quran reader

So he shall be in a state of bliss,

فِیْ جَنَّةٍ عَالِیَةٍۙ ﴿٢٢﴾Open ayah 69:22 in the Quran reader

in a high Garden,

قُطُوْفُهَا دَانِیَةٌ ﴿٢٣﴾Open ayah 69:23 in the Quran reader

whose clusters of fruit shall be hanging within easy reach.

كُلُوْا وَ اشْرَبُوْا هَنِیْٓئًۢا بِمَاۤ اَسْلَفْتُمْ فِی الْاَیَّامِ الْخَالِیَةِ ﴿٢٤﴾Open ayah 69:24 in the Quran reader

(To such people it will be said: "Eat and drink with relish as a reward for the deeds you did in the days gone by."

وَ اَمَّا مَنْ اُوْتِیَ كِتٰبَهٗ بِشِمَالِهٖ١ۙ۬ فَیَقُوْلُ یٰلَیْتَنِیْ لَمْ اُوْتَ كِتٰبِیَهْۚ ﴿٢٥﴾Open ayah 69:25 in the Quran reader

As for him whose record is given in his left hand, 15 he will say: "Would that I had not been given my record 16

وَ لَمْ اَدْرِ مَا حِسَابِیَهْۚ ﴿٢٦﴾Open ayah 69:26 in the Quran reader

nor known what my account was. 17

یٰلَیْتَهَا كَانَتِ الْقَاضِیَةَۚ ﴿٢٧﴾Open ayah 69:27 in the Quran reader

Would that the death (that I suffered in the world) were final. 18

مَاۤ اَغْنٰى عَنِّیْ مَالِیَهْۚ ﴿٢٨﴾Open ayah 69:28 in the Quran reader

Today my wealth has availed me nothing,

هَلَكَ عَنِّیْ سُلْطٰنِیَهْۚ ﴿٢٩﴾Open ayah 69:29 in the Quran reader

and I am robbed of all my power. 19

خُذُوْهُ فَغُلُّوْهُۙ ﴿٣٠﴾Open ayah 69:30 in the Quran reader

(It will be ordered:) "Seize him and chain him by the neck,

ثُمَّ الْجَحِیْمَ صَلُّوْهُۙ ﴿٣١﴾Open ayah 69:31 in the Quran reader

then cast him into Hell,

ثُمَّ فِیْ سِلْسِلَةٍ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُوْنَ ذِرَاعًا فَاسْلُكُوْهُؕ ﴿٣٢﴾Open ayah 69:32 in the Quran reader

then fasten him in a chain seventy cubits long.

اِنَّهٗ كَانَ لَا یُؤْمِنُ بِاللّٰهِ الْعَظِیْمِۙ ﴿٣٣﴾Open ayah 69:33 in the Quran reader

For he did not believe in Allah, the Most High,

وَ لَا یَحُضُّ عَلٰى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِیْنِؕ ﴿٣٤﴾Open ayah 69:34 in the Quran reader

nor urged the feeding of the poor. 20

فَلَیْسَ لَهُ الْیَوْمَ هٰهُنَا حَمِیْمٌۙ ﴿٣٥﴾Open ayah 69:35 in the Quran reader

So, he has neither any true friend here today

وَّ لَا طَعَامٌ اِلَّا مِنْ غِسْلِیْنٍۙ ﴿٣٦﴾Open ayah 69:36 in the Quran reader

nor any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,

لَّا یَاْكُلُهٗۤ اِلَّا الْخَاطِئُوْنَ۠ ﴿٣٧﴾Open ayah 69:37 in the Quran reader

which none but the sinners eat.

فَلَاۤ اُقْسِمُ بِمَا تُبْصِرُوْنَۙ ﴿٣٨﴾Open ayah 69:38 in the Quran reader

Not so! 21 I swear by those things which you see

وَ مَا لَا تُبْصِرُوْنَۙ ﴿٣٩﴾Open ayah 69:39 in the Quran reader

and also by those which you do not see,

اِنَّهٗ لَقَوْلُ رَسُوْلٍ كَرِیْمٍۚۙ ﴿٤٠﴾Open ayah 69:40 in the Quran reader

that this is the Word of an honourable Messenger. 22