Al-Haqqa

Saheeh International

1. The Inevitable Reality

2. What is the Inevitable Reality

3. And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality

4. Thamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity

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

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

7. 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

8. Then do you see of them any remains

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

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

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

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

13. Then when the Horn is blown with one blast

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

15. Then on that Day, the Resurrection will occur

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

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

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

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

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

21. So he will be in a pleasant life

22. In an elevated garden

23. Its [fruit] to be picked hanging near

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

25. 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

26. And had not known what is my account

27. I wish my death had been the decisive one

28. My wealth has not availed me

29. Gone from me is my authority

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

31. Then into Hellfire drive him

32. Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits insert him

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

34. Nor did he encourage the feeding of the poor

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

36. Nor any food except from the discharge of wounds

37. None will eat it except the sinners

38. So I swear by what you see

39. And what you do not see

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

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

42. Nor the word of a soothsayer; little do you remember

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

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

45. We would have seized him by the right hand

46. Then We would have cut from him the aorta

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

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

49. And indeed, We know that among you are deniers

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

51. And indeed, it is the truth of certainty

52. So exalt the name of your Lord, the Most Great