Al-Haqqah (69)
Verses: 52وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
What will explain to you what the Inevitable Hour is?
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 3
كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌۢ بِٱلْقَارِعَةِ
The people of Thamud and 'Ad denied that the crashing blowwould come:
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 4
فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ
Thamud was destroyed by a deafening blast;
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 5
وَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِرِيحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍ
Ad was destroyed by a furious wind
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 6
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَـٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ
that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks.
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 7
وَجَآءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَن قَبْلَهُۥ وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَـٰتُ بِٱلْخَاطِئَةِ
And there came Pharaoh and those before him and the overturned cities with sin.
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 9
فَعَصَوْا۟ رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمْ أَخْذَةً رَّابِيَةً
these people committed grave sins and disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with an ever-tightening grip.
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 10
إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا ٱلْمَآءُ حَمَلْنَـٰكُمْ فِى ٱلْجَارِيَةِ
But when the Flood rose high, We saved you in the floating ship,
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 11
لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌ وَٰعِيَةٌ
making that event a reminder for you: attentive ears may take heed.
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 12
فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ
When the Trumpet is sounded a single time,
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 13
وَحُمِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَٱلْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَٰحِدَةً
when the earth and its mountains are raised high and then crushed with a single blow,
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 14
فَيَوْمَئِذٍ وَقَعَتِ ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ
on that Day the Great Event will come to pass.
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 15
وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ
The sky will be torn apart on that Day, it will be so frail.
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 16
وَٱلْمَلَكُ عَلَىٰٓ أَرْجَآئِهَا ۚ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَـٰنِيَةٌ
The angels will be on all sides of it and, on that Day, eight of them will bear the throne of your Lord above them.
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 17
يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَىٰ مِنكُمْ خَافِيَةٌ
On that Day you will be brought to judgement and none of your secrets will remain hidden.
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 18
فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ فَيَقُولُ هَآؤُمُ ٱقْرَءُوا۟ كِتَـٰبِيَهْ
Anyone who is given his Record in his right hand will say, ‘Here is my Record, read it.
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 19
إِنِّى ظَنَنتُ أَنِّى مُلَـٰقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ
I knew I would meet my Reckoning,’
Al-Haqqah
- Verse 20