Surah “The Reality, The Inevitable”

as rendered by The Wise Quran Project — 52 verses

69:1
The reality.
69:2
What is the reality?
69:3
And what will make you know what the reality is?
69:4
Thamud and 'Ad called the sudden calamity a lie;
69:5
So as for Thamud, then they were destroyed with the thunderbolt;
69:6
And as for 'Ad, then they were destroyed with a violent, intensely cold wind.
69:7
He subjected it against them seven nights and eight days inauspiciously. And you see the people in it prostrate as if they were trunks of palm trees fallen down,
69:8
And can you see a remnant of them?
69:9
And Pharaoh and who was before him and the overturned cities came with the sin,
69:10
And they rebelled against the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them, an increasing seizing.
69:11
Indeed We, when the water surged, We carried you in the ship,
69:12
That We may make it a reminder for you and that a retentive ear may retain it.
69:13
Then when the horn is blown in, one blast,
69:14
And the earth and the mountains are carried and both are crushed, one crushing;
69:15
Then on that day the event will happen;
69:16
And the heaven will split, so it is on that day unsound,
69:17
And the angels on its sides, and eight will carry the throne of your Lord above them on that day.
69:18
On that day you will be exposed, a secret of you will not be hidden.
69:19
Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say, 'Here! Read my book!
69:20
Indeed I, I thought that I would meet my reckoning.'
69:21
And he is in a pleasing life,
69:22
In a lofty garden,
69:23
Its cluster of fruits near.
69:24
'Eat and drink with good digestion for what you did previously in the past days.'
69:25
And as for him who is given his book in his left hand, then he will say, 'O I wish I had not been given my book
69:26
And knew not what my reckoning is.
69:27
O I wish it was the end.
69:28
My wealth has not availed me.
69:29
My authority has perished from me.'
69:30
Take him and fetter him,
69:31
Then the hellfire burn him.
69:32
Then in a chain, its length is seventy cubits, then insert him.
69:33
Indeed he, he does not believe in God, the Great,
69:34
And he does not urge on the food of the poor.
69:35
So there is not for him here today a close friend,
69:36
Nor food except dirty wash water,
69:37
None will eat it except the sinners.
69:38
So I swear by what you see,
69:39
And what you do not see,
69:40
Indeed, it is surely speech of a noble messenger;
69:41
And it is not speech of a poet; little is what you believe.
69:42
And not speech of a soothsayer; little is what you remember.
69:43
A revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
69:44
And if he lied against Us some of the sayings,
69:45
Surely We would have seized him by the right hand;
69:46
Then surely We would have cut off from him the aorta;
69:47
And not one of you preventers from him.
69:48
And indeed, it is surely a reminder for those who fear;
69:49
And indeed We, surely We know that among you are deniers;
69:50
And indeed, it is surely regret upon the disbelievers;
69:51
And indeed, it is surely the truth of the certainty.
69:52
So glorify with the name of your Lord, the Great.