The INEVITABLE
What is the Inevitable
And who shall make thee comprehend what the Inevitable is
Themoud and Ad treated the day of Terrors as a lie
So as to Themoud, they were destroyed by crashing thunder bolts
And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring and furious blast
It did the bidding of God against them seven nights and eight days together, during which thou mightest have seen the people laid low, as though they had been the trunks of hollow palms
And couldst thou have seen one of them surviving
Pharaoh also, and those who flourished before him, and the overthrown cities, committed sin,
And disobeyed the Sent one of their Lord; therefore did he chastise them with an accumulated chastisement
When the Flood rose high, we bare you in the Ark
That we might make that event a warning to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it
But when one blast shall be blown on the trumpet
And the earth and the mountains shall be upheaved, and shall both be crushed into dust at a single crushing
On that day the woe that must come suddenly shall suddenly come
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, for on that day it shall be fragile
And the angels shall be on its sides, and over them on that day eight shall bear up the throne of thy Lord
On that day ye shall be brought before Him: none of your hidden deeds shall remain hidden
And he who shall have his book given to him in his right hand, will say to his friends, "Take ye it; read ye my book
I ever thought that to this my reckoning I should come."
And his shall be a life that shall please him well
In a lofty garden
Whose clusters shall be near at hand
"Eat ye and drink with healthy relish, as the meed of what ye sent on beforehand in the days which are past."
But he who shall have his book given into his left hand, will say, "O that my book had never been given me
And that I had never known my reckoning
O that death had made an end of me
My wealth hath not profited me
My power hath perished from me!"
"Lay ye hold on him and chain him
Then at the Hell-fire burn him
Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits thrust him
For he believed not in God, the Great
And was not careful to feed the poor
No friend therefore shall he have here this day
Nor food, but corrupt sores
Which none shall eat but the sinners."
It needs not that I swear by what ye see
And by that which ye see not
That this verily is the word of an apostle worthy of all honour
And that it is not the word of a poet - how little do ye believe
Neither is it the word of a soothsayer (Kahin) - how little do ye receive warning
It is a missive from the Lord of the worlds
But if Muhammad had fabricated concerning us any sayings
We had surely seized him by the right hand
And had cut through the vein of his neck
Nor would We have withheld any one of you from him
But, verily, It (the Koran) is a warning for the God-fearing
And we well know that there are of you who treat it as a falsehood
But it shall be the despair of infidels
For it is the very truth of sure knowledge
Praise, then, the name of thy Lord, the Great