الْحَاقَّةُ
The Inevitable Reality.
The Reality · al-Haqqah · سورة الحاقة · 52 ayahs
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.
مَا الْحَاقَّةُ
What is the Inevitable Reality?
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْحَاقَّةُ
And what could make you know what the Inevitable Reality is?
كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌ بِالْقَارِعَةِ
Thamud and Ad denied the Striking Calamity.
فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا بِالطَّاغِيَةِ
As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overwhelming blast.
وَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَأُهْلِكُوا بِرِيحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍ
And as for Ad, they were destroyed by a screaming, relentless wind.
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ
He unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days without cease. You would have seen the people lying fallen like hollow trunks of palm trees.
فَهَلْ تَرَىٰ لَهُمْ مِنْ بَاقِيَةٍ
Do you see any of them remaining?
وَجَاءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَنْ قَبْلَهُ وَالْمُؤْتَفِكَاتُ بِالْخَاطِئَةِ
Pharaoh came, and those before him, and the overturned cities, with sin.
فَعَصَوْا رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمْ أَخْذَةً رَابِيَةً
They disobeyed their Lord’s messenger, so He seized them with a crushing grip.
إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ
When the waters surged, We carried you in the sailing vessel.
لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَا أُذُنٌ وَاعِيَةٌ
So that We might make it a reminder for you, and so that a retentive ear might retain it.
فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِي الصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ
When the Horn is blown with a single blast.
وَحُمِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ وَالْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَاحِدَةً
And the earth and the mountains are lifted and crushed with a single crushing.
فَيَوْمَئِذٍ وَقَعَتِ الْوَاقِعَةُ
On that Day the Event will come to pass.
وَانْشَقَّتِ السَّمَاءُ فَهِيَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ
And the sky will split apart, for on that Day it will be frail.
وَالْمَلَكُ عَلَىٰ أَرْجَائِهَا ۚ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَانِيَةٌ
And the angels will be at its edges, and eight will bear your Lord’s throne above them on that Day.
يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَىٰ مِنْكُمْ خَافِيَةٌ
On that Day you will be exposed — no secret of yours will stay hidden.
فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِيَمِينِهِ فَيَقُولُ هَاؤُمُ اقْرَءُوا كِتَابِيَهْ
As for the one given his record in his right hand, he will say, “Here, read my record!
إِنِّي ظَنَنْتُ أَنِّي مُلَاقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ
I knew I would meet my reckoning.”
فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَاضِيَةٍ
So he will be in a pleasing life.
فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
In a lofty garden.
قُطُوفُهَا دَانِيَةٌ
Its fruits hanging near.
كُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا هَنِيئًا بِمَا أَسْلَفْتُمْ فِي الْأَيَّامِ الْخَالِيَةِ
“Eat and drink with pleasure for what you sent ahead in days gone by.”
وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِشِمَالِهِ فَيَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أُوتَ كِتَابِيَهْ
But as for the one given his record in his left hand, he will say, “If only I had never been given my record!
وَلَمْ أَدْرِ مَا حِسَابِيَهْ
And had never known my reckoning!
يَا لَيْتَهَا كَانَتِ الْقَاضِيَةَ
If only it had been the end!
مَا أَغْنَىٰ عَنِّي مَالِيَهْ ۜ
My wealth has not helped me at all.
هَلَكَ عَنِّي سُلْطَانِيَهْ
My authority has perished from me.”
خُذُوهُ فَغُلُّوهُ
“Seize him and shackle him.
ثُمَّ الْجَحِيمَ صَلُّوهُ
Then burn him in the Blaze.
ثُمَّ فِي سِلْسِلَةٍ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعًا فَاسْلُكُوهُ
Then insert him in a chain seventy cubits long.”
إِنَّهُ كَانَ لَا يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ الْعَظِيمِ
He never believed in God, the Great.
وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ
And never urged the feeding of the destitute.
فَلَيْسَ لَهُ الْيَوْمَ هَاهُنَا حَمِيمٌ
So today he has no close friend here.
وَلَا طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ غِسْلِينٍ
And no food except filthy discharge.
لَا يَأْكُلُهُ إِلَّا الْخَاطِئُونَ
None eat it but the sinners.
فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِمَا تُبْصِرُونَ
I swear by what you see.
وَمَا لَا تُبْصِرُونَ
And what you do not see.
إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ
It is truly the word of a noble messenger.
وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَاعِرٍ ۚ قَلِيلًا مَا تُؤْمِنُونَ
It is not the word of a poet — how little you believe!
وَلَا بِقَوْلِ كَاهِنٍ ۚ قَلِيلًا مَا تَذَكَّرُونَ
Nor the word of a soothsayer — how little you reflect!
تَنْزِيلٌ مِنْ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
A revelation from the Lord of all worlds.
وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ الْأَقَاوِيلِ
Had he fabricated any sayings against Us.
لَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِينِ
We would have seized him by the right hand.
ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ الْوَتِينَ
Then We would have severed his life-vein.
فَمَا مِنْكُمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَاجِزِينَ
And none of you could have shielded him.
وَإِنَّهُ لَتَذْكِرَةٌ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ
It is surely a reminder for the reverent.
وَإِنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ أَنَّ مِنْكُمْ مُكَذِّبِينَ
And We know that among you are deniers.
وَإِنَّهُ لَحَسْرَةٌ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ
And it will surely be a source of anguish for the disbelievers.
وَإِنَّهُ لَحَقُّ الْيَقِينِ
And it is certainly the truth of certainty.
فَسَبِّحْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الْعَظِيمِ
So glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.