الْحَاقَّةُ ١

The Indubitable!

مَا الْحَاقَّةُ ٢

What is the Indubitable?

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْحَاقَّةُ ٣

And what will teach thee what is the Indubitable?

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌ بِالْقَارِعَةِ ٤

Thamood and Ad cried lies to the Clatterer.

فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا بِالطَّاغِيَةِ ٥

As for Thamood, they were destroyed by the Screamer;

وَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَأُهْلِكُوا بِرِيحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍ ٦

and as for Ad, they were destroyed by a wind clamorous,

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ ٧

violent that He compelled against them seven nights and eight days, uninterruptedly, and thou mightest see the people laid prostrate in it as if they were the stumps of fallen down palm-trees.

فَهَلْ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّن بَاقِيَةٍ ٨

Now dost thou see any remnant of them?

وَجَاءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَن قَبْلَهُ وَالْمُؤْتَفِكَاتُ بِالْخَاطِئَةِ ٩

Pharaoh likewise, and those before him, and the Subverted Cities -- they committed error,

فَعَصَوْا رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمْ أَخْذَةً رَّابِيَةً ١٠

and they rebelled against the Messenger of their Lord, and He seized them with a surpassing grip.

إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ١١

Lo, when the waters rose, We bore you in the running ship

لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَا أُذُنٌ وَاعِيَةٌ ١٢

that We might make it a reminder for you and for heeding ears to hold.

فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِي الصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ ١٣

So, when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast

وَحُمِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ وَالْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَاحِدَةً ١٤

and the earth and the mountains are lifted up and crushed with a single blow,

فَيَوْمَئِذٍ وَقَعَتِ الْوَاقِعَةُ ١٥

then, on that day, the Terror shall come to pass,

وَانشَقَّتِ السَّمَاءُ فَهِيَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ ١٦

and heaven shall be split, for upon that day it shall be very frail,

وَالْمَلَكُ عَلَىٰ أَرْجَائِهَا ۚ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَانِيَةٌ ١٧

and the angels shall stand upon its borders, and upon that day eight shall carry above them the Throne of thy Lord.

يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَىٰ مِنكُمْ خَافِيَةٌ ١٨

On that day you shall be exposed, not one secret of yours concealed.

فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِيَمِينِهِ فَيَقُولُ هَاؤُمُ اقْرَءُوا كِتَابِيَهْ ١٩

Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he shall say, ’Here, take and read my book!

إِنِّي ظَنَنتُ أَنِّي مُلَاقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ ٢٠

Certainly I thought that I should encounter my reckoning.’