Al-Haqqa
Read My Record
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. That which establishes the real! What is that which establishes the real?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحاقة ما الحاقةAnd what will make you know what that which establishes the real is?
وما ادرىك ما الحاقةthe Depleters [Thamud] and the Recidivists [Aad] denied the Crash.
كذبت ثمود وعاد بالقارعةAs for the Depleters [Thamud], they were annihilated by the excessive [cry].
فاما ثمود فاهلكوا بالطاغيةAnd as for the Recidivists [Aad], they were annihilated by an icy, insolent wind, which He subjected against them for seven nights and eight days in succession,
واما عاد فاهلكوا بريح صرصر عاتية سخرها عليهم سبع ليال وثمنية ايام حسوماso that you would have seen the people lying prostrate, as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.
فترى القوم فيها صرعى كانهم اعجاز نخل خاويةDo you see any remnant of them?
فهل ترى لهم من باقيةAnd Fir'awn, and those before him, and the overturned cities committed the offense; they disobeyed the messenger of their Guardian, so He seized them with an ever-intensifying seizure.
وجاء فرعون ومن قبله والموتفكت بالخاطية فعصوا رسول ربهم فاخذهم اخذة رابيةWhen the water overflowed, We carried you on the vessel, so as to make it a reminder for you, and so that a retaining ear might retain it.
انا لما طغا الماء حملنكم في الجارية لنجعلها لكم تذكرة وتعيها اذن وعيةWhen the Horn is blown with a single blast, and the earth and the mountains are lifted and crushed with a single blow, on that day the Event will occur, and the heaven will split apart and be, on that day, frail, with the Agent at its edge,
فاذا نفخ في الصور نفخة وحدة وحملت الارض والجبال فدكتا دكة وحدة فيوميذ وقعت الواقعة وانشقت السماء فهي يوميذ واهية والملك على ارجايهاand eight [of them] will bear, on that day, the Edifice of your Guardian above them. On that day you will be exposed, and nothing about you will remain hidden.
ويحمل عرش ربك فوقهم يوميذ ثمنية يوميذ تعرضون لا تخفى منكم خافيةAs for the one who is given his record in his right hand, he will say: 'Here, read my record!
فاما من اوتي كتبه بيمينه فيقول هاوم اقرءوا كتبيهI thought that I would meet my reckoning.'
اني ظننت اني ملق حسابيهHe will be in a satisfying life, in an elevated garden, whose fruit clusters are within reach.
فهو في عيشة راضية في جنة عالية قطوفها دانية'Eat and drink
كلوا واشربواpleasantly, for what you sent forth in the days gone by.'
هنيا بما اسلفتم في الايام الخاليةBut as for the one who is given his record in his left hand, he will say: 'Oh, would that I had not been given my record,
واما من اوتي كتبه بشماله فيقول يليتني لم اوت كتبيهand that I had not known what my reckoning was!
ولم ادر ما حسابيهWould that it had been the final end! My goods have not availed me,
يليتها كانت القاضية ما اغنى عني ماليهmy authority has vanished from me.'
هلك عني سلطنيه'Seize him, then bind him, then expose him to the Blaze, then insert him into a chain seventy cubits in length.
خذوه فغلوه ثم الجحيم صلوه ثم في سلسلة ذرعها سبعون ذراعا فاسلكوهHe did not believe in God, the Immense, nor did he urge the feeding of the destitute.
انه كان لا يومن بالله العظيم ولا يحض على طعام المسكينSo today he has here no warm friend, nor any food except a foul discharge, which only those at fault eat.'
فليس له اليوم ههنا حميم ولا طعام الا من غسلين لا ياكله الا الخطونNo! I swear by what you see and what you do not see: this is surely the word of a noble messenger, and it is not the word of a beguiling rhetorician — little do you believe — nor the word of a soothsayer.
فلا اقسم بما تبصرون وما لا تبصرون انه لقول رسول كريم وما هو بقول شاعر قليلا ما تومنون ولا بقول كاهنLittle do you remember.
قليلا ما تذكرونA revealed descent from the Guardian of all beings.
تنزيل من رب العلمينAnd had he attributed to Us some fabricated sayings, We would have seized him by the right hand, then severed his aorta, and not one of you could have shielded him from Us.
ولو تقول علينا بعض الاقاويل لاخذنا منه باليمين ثم لقطعنا منه الوتين فما منكم من احد عنه حجزينAnd this is surely a reminder for those who guard themselves [before God].
وانه لتذكرة للمتقينAnd We surely know that among you are deniers.
وانا لنعلم ان منكم مكذبينAnd this is surely a bitter regret for those who disown.
وانه لحسرة على الكفرينAnd this is surely the truth of certainty.
وانه لحق اليقينSo glorify in the name of your Guardian, the Immense.
فسبح باسم ربك العظيم