69. Al-Haaqqa

69:1

ٱلْحَآقَّةُ ﴿١﴾

Al-ḥāqqah

The Reality!

69:2

مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ ﴿٢﴾

Mā al-ḥāqqah

What is the Reality?

69:3

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ ﴿٣﴾

Wamā adrāka mā al-ḥāqqah

Ah, what will convey unto thee what the reality is!

69:4

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌۢ بِٱلْقَارِعَةِ ﴿٤﴾

Kadhdhabat thamūdu waʿādun bil-qāriʿah

(The tribes of) Thamud and A'ad disbelieved in the judgment to come.

69:5

فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ ﴿٥﴾

Faʾammā thamūdu faʾuhlikū biṭ-ṭāghiyah

As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightning.

69:6

وَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِرِيحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍ ﴿٦﴾

Waʾammā ʿādun faʾuhlikū birīḥin ṣarṣarin ʿātiyah

And as for A'ad, they were destroyed by a fierce roaring wind,

69:7

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَـٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ ﴿٧﴾

Sakhkharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layālin wathamāniyata ayyāmin ḥusūman fatarā al-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā kaʾannahum aʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyah

Which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that thou mightest have seen men lying overthrown, as they were hollow trunks of palm-trees.

69:8

فَهَلْ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِيَةٍ ﴿٨﴾

Fahal tarā lahum min bāqiyah

Canst thou (O Muhammad) see any remnant of them?

69:9

وَجَآءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَن قَبْلَهُۥ وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَـٰتُ بِٱلْخَاطِئَةِ ﴿٩﴾

Wajāʾa firʿawnu waman qablahu wal-muʾtafikātu bil-khāṭiʾah

And Pharaoh and those before him, and the communities that were destroyed, brought error,

69:10

فَعَصَوْا۟ رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمْ أَخْذَةً رَّابِيَةً ﴿١٠﴾

Faʿaṣaw rasūla rabbihim faʾakhadhahum akhdhatan rābiyah

And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, therefor did He grip them with a tightening grip.

69:11

إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا ٱلْمَآءُ حَمَلْنَـٰكُمْ فِى ٱلْجَارِيَةِ ﴿١١﴾

Innā lammā ṭaghā al-māʾu ḥamalnākum fī al-jāriyah

Lo! when the waters rose, We carried you upon the ship

69:12

لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌ وَٰعِيَةٌ ﴿١٢﴾

Linajʿalahā lakum tadhkiratan wataʿiyahā udhunun wāʿiyah

That We might make it a memorial for you, and that remembering ears (that heard the story) might remember.

69:13

فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ ﴿١٣﴾

Faʾidhā nufikha fī aṣ-ṣūri nafkhatun wāḥidah

And when the trumpet shall sound one blast

69:14

وَحُمِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَٱلْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَٰحِدَةً ﴿١٤﴾

Waḥumilati al-arḍu wal-jibālu fadukkatā dakkatan wāḥidah

And the earth with the mountains shall be lifted up and crushed with one crash,

69:15

فَيَوْمَئِذٍ وَقَعَتِ ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ ﴿١٥﴾

Fayawmaʾidhin waqaʿati al-wāqiʿah

Then, on that day will the Event befall.

69:16

وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ ﴿١٦﴾

Wānshaqqati as-samāʾu fahiya yawmaʾidhin wāhiyah

And the heaven will split asunder, for that day it will be frail.

69:17

وَٱلْمَلَكُ عَلَىٰٓ أَرْجَآئِهَا ۚ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَـٰنِيَةٌ ﴿١٧﴾

Wal-malaku ʿalā arjāʾihā wayaḥmilu ʿarsha rabbika fawqahum yawmaʾidhin thamāniyah

And the angels will be on the sides thereof, and eight will uphold the Throne of thy Lord that day, above them.

69:18

يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَىٰ مِنكُمْ خَافِيَةٌ ﴿١٨﴾

Yawmaʾidhin tuʿraḍūna lā takhfā minkum khāfiyah

On that day ye will be exposed; not a secret of you will be hidden.

69:19

فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ فَيَقُولُ هَآؤُمُ ٱقْرَءُوا۟ كِتَـٰبِيَهْ ﴿١٩﴾

Faʾammā man ūtiya kitābahu biyamīnihi fayaqūlu hāʾumu iqraʾū kitābiyah

Then, as for him who is given his record in his right hand, he will say: Take, read my book!

69:20

إِنِّى ظَنَنتُ أَنِّى مُلَـٰقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ ﴿٢٠﴾

Innī ẓanantu annī mulāqin ḥisābiyah

Surely I knew that I should have to meet my reckoning.

69:21

فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ ﴿٢١﴾

Fahuwa fī ʿīshatin rāḍiyah

Then he will be in blissful state

69:22

فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ ﴿٢٢﴾

Fī jannatin ʿāliyah

In a high garden

69:23

قُطُوفُهَا دَانِيَةٌ ﴿٢٣﴾

Quṭūfuhā dāniyah

Whereof the clusters are in easy reach.

69:24

كُلُوا۟ وَٱشْرَبُوا۟ هَنِيٓـًٔۢا بِمَآ أَسْلَفْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَيَّامِ ٱلْخَالِيَةِ ﴿٢٤﴾

Kulū wāshrabū hanīʾan bimā aslaftum fī al-ayyāmi al-khāliyah

(And it will be said unto those therein): Eat and drink at ease for that which ye sent on before you in past days.

69:25

وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ بِشِمَالِهِۦ فَيَقُولُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى لَمْ أُوتَ كِتَـٰبِيَهْ ﴿٢٥﴾

Waʾammā man ūtiya kitābahu bishimālihi fayaqūlu yā laytanī lam ūta kitābiyah

But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say: Oh, would that I had not been given my book

69:26

وَلَمْ أَدْرِ مَا حِسَابِيَهْ ﴿٢٦﴾

Walam adri mā ḥisābiyah

And knew not what my reckoning!

69:27

يَـٰلَيْتَهَا كَانَتِ ٱلْقَاضِيَةَ ﴿٢٧﴾

Yā laytahā kānati al-qāḍiyah

Oh, would that it had been death!

69:28

مَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنِّى مَالِيَهْ ۜ ﴿٢٨﴾

Mā aghnā ʿannī māliyah

My wealth hath not availed me,

69:29

هَلَكَ عَنِّى سُلْطَـٰنِيَهْ ﴿٢٩﴾

Halaka ʿannī sulṭāniyah

My power hath gone from me.

69:30

خُذُوهُ فَغُلُّوهُ ﴿٣٠﴾

Khudhūhu faghullūh

(It will be said): Take him and fetter him

69:31

ثُمَّ ٱلْجَحِيمَ صَلُّوهُ ﴿٣١﴾

Thumma al-jaḥīma ṣallūh

And then expose him to hell-fire

69:32

ثُمَّ فِى سِلْسِلَةٍ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعًا فَٱسْلُكُوهُ ﴿٣٢﴾

Thumma fī silsilatin dharʿuhā sabʿūna dhirāʿan fāslukūh

And then insert him in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits.

69:33

إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ لَا يُؤْمِنُ بِٱللَّهِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ ﴿٣٣﴾

Innahu kāna lā yuʾminu billāhi al-ʿaẓīm

Lo! He used not to believe in Allah the Tremendous,

69:34

وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ ﴿٣٤﴾

Walā yaḥuḍḍu ʿalā ṭaʿāmi al-miskīn

And urged not on the feeding of the wretched.

69:35

فَلَيْسَ لَهُ ٱلْيَوْمَ هَـٰهُنَا حَمِيمٌ ﴿٣٥﴾

Falaysa lahu al-yawma hāhunā ḥamīm

Therefor hath he no lover here this day,

69:36

وَلَا طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ غِسْلِينٍ ﴿٣٦﴾

Walā ṭaʿāmun illā min ghislīn

Nor any food save filth

69:37

لَّا يَأْكُلُهُۥٓ إِلَّا ٱلْخَـٰطِـُٔونَ ﴿٣٧﴾

Lā yaʾkuluhu illā al-khāṭiʾūn

Which none but sinners eat.

69:38

فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِمَا تُبْصِرُونَ ﴿٣٨﴾

Falā uqsimu bimā tubṣirūn

But nay! I swear by all that ye see

69:39

وَمَا لَا تُبْصِرُونَ ﴿٣٩﴾

Wamā lā tubṣirūn

And all that ye see not

69:40

إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ ﴿٤٠﴾

Innahu laqawlu rasūlin karīm

That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger.

69:41

وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَاعِرٍ ۚ قَلِيلًا مَّا تُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿٤١﴾

Wamā huwa biqawli shāʿirin qalīlan mā tuʾminūn

It is not poet's speech - little is it that ye believe!

69:42

وَلَا بِقَوْلِ كَاهِنٍ ۚ قَلِيلًا مَّا تَذَكَّرُونَ ﴿٤٢﴾

Walā biqawli kāhinin qalīlan mā tadhakkarūn

Nor diviner's speech - little is it that ye remember!

69:43

تَنزِيلٌ مِّن رَّبِّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ﴿٤٣﴾

Tanzīlun min rabbi al-ʿālamīn

It is a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.

69:44

وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ ٱلْأَقَاوِيلِ ﴿٤٤﴾

Walaw taqawwala ʿalaynā baʿḍa al-aqāwīl

And if he had invented false sayings concerning Us,

69:45

لَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِٱلْيَمِينِ ﴿٤٥﴾

Laʾakhadhnā minhu bil-yamīn

We assuredly had taken him by the right hand

69:46

ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ ٱلْوَتِينَ ﴿٤٦﴾

Thumma laqaṭaʿnā minhu al-watīn

And then severed his life-artery,

69:47

فَمَا مِنكُم مِّنْ أَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَـٰجِزِينَ ﴿٤٧﴾

Famā minkum min aḥadin ʿanhu ḥājizīn

And not one of you could have held Us off from him.

69:48

وَإِنَّهُۥ لَتَذْكِرَةٌ لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ ﴿٤٨﴾

Waʾinnahu latadhkiratun lilmuttaqīn

And lo! it is a warrant unto those who ward off (evil).

69:49

وَإِنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ أَنَّ مِنكُم مُّكَذِّبِينَ ﴿٤٩﴾

Waʾinnā lanaʿlamu anna minkum mukadhdhibīn

And lo! We know that some among you will deny (it).

69:50

وَإِنَّهُۥ لَحَسْرَةٌ عَلَى ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ ﴿٥٠﴾

Waʾinnahu laḥasratun ʿalā al-kāfirīn

And lo! it is indeed an anguish for the disbelievers.

69:51

وَإِنَّهُۥ لَحَقُّ ٱلْيَقِينِ ﴿٥١﴾

Waʾinnahu laḥaqqu al-yaqīn

And lo! it is absolute truth.

69:52

فَسَبِّحْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلْعَظِيمِ ﴿٥٢﴾

Fasabbiḥ bismi rabbika al-ʿaẓīm

So glorify the name of thy Tremendous Lord.