Surat Al-qqah (The Reality) -
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The Inevitable Reality -
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What is the Inevitable Reality?
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And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
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Thamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity.
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So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast].
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And as for 'Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind
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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.
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Then do you see of them any remains?
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And there came Pharaoh and those before him and the overturned cities
with sin.
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And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with a
seizure exceeding [in severity].
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Indeed, when the water overflowed, We carried your ancestors in the
sailing ship
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That We might make it for you a reminder and [that] a conscious ear would
be conscious of it.
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Then when the Horn is blown with one blast
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And the earth and the mountains are lifted and leveled with one blow -
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Then on that Day, the Resurrection will occur,
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And the heaven will split [open], for that Day it is infirm.
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And the angels are at its edges. And there will bear the Throne of your Lord
above them, that Day, eight [of them].
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That Day, you will be exhibited [for judgement]; not hidden among you is
anything concealed.
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So as for he who is given his record in his right hand, he will say, "Here,
read my record!
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Indeed, I was certain that I would be meeting my account."
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So he will be in a pleasant life -
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In an elevated garden,
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Its [fruit] to be picked hanging near.
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[They will be told], "Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you put forth in
the days past."
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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
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And had not known what is my account.
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I wish my death had been the decisive one.
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My wealth has not availed me.
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Gone from me is my authority."
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[ Allah will say], "Seize him and shackle him.
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Then into Hellfire drive him.
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Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits insert him."
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Indeed, he did not used to believe in Allah , the Most Great,
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Nor did he encourage the feeding of the poor.
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So there is not for him here this Day any devoted friend
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Nor any food except from the discharge of wounds;
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None will eat it except the sinners.
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So I swear by what you see
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And what you do not see
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[That] indeed, the Qur'an is the word of a noble Messenger.
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And it is not the word of a poet; little do you believe.
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Nor the word of a soothsayer; little do you remember.
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[It is] a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
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And if Muhammad had made up about Us some [false] sayings,
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We would have seized him by the right hand;
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Then We would have cut from him the aorta.
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And there is no one of you who could prevent [Us] from him.
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And indeed, the Qur'an is a reminder for the righteous.
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And indeed, We know that among you are deniers.
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And indeed, it will be [a cause of] regret upon the disbelievers.
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And indeed, it is the truth of certainty.
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So exalt the name of your Lord, the Most Great.
