The Reality
سورة الحاقة
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
69:1
The Reality
ٱلْحَآقَّةُ١
The Inevitable Hour!
69:2
The Reality
مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ٢
What is the Inevitable Hour?
69:3
The Reality
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ٣
And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?
69:4
The Reality
كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌۢ بِٱلْقَارِعَةِ٤
˹Both˺ Thamûd and ’Ȃd denied the Striking Disaster.
69:5
The Reality
فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ٥
As for Thamûd, they were destroyed by an overwhelming blast.
69:6
The Reality
وَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِرِيحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍ٦
And as for ’Ȃd, they were destroyed by a furious, bitter wind
69:7
The Reality
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَـٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ٧
which Allah unleashed on them non-stop for seven nights and eight days, so that you would have seen its people lying dead like trunks of uprooted palm trees.
69:8
The Reality
فَهَلْ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِيَةٍ٨
Do you see any of them left alive?
69:9
The Reality
وَجَآءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَن قَبْلَهُۥ وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَـٰتُ بِٱلْخَاطِئَةِ٩
Also, Pharaoh and those before him, and ˹the people of˺ the overturned cities ˹of Lot˺ indulged in sin
69:10
The Reality
فَعَصَوْا۟ رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمْ أَخْذَةً رَّابِيَةً١٠
each disobeying their Lord’s messenger, so He seized them with a crushing grip.
69:11
The Reality
إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا ٱلْمَآءُ حَمَلْنَـٰكُمْ فِى ٱلْجَارِيَةِ١١
Indeed, when the floodwater had overflowed, We carried you in the floating Ark ˹with Noah˺
69:12
The Reality
لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌ وَٰعِيَةٌ١٢
so that We may make this a reminder to you, and that attentive ears may grasp it.
69:13
The Reality
فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ١٣
At last, when the Trumpet will be blown with one blast
69:14
The Reality
وَحُمِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَٱلْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَٰحِدَةً١٤
and the earth and mountains will be lifted up and crushed with one blow
69:15
The Reality
فَيَوْمَئِذٍ وَقَعَتِ ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ١٥
on that Day the Inevitable Event will have come to pass.
69:16
The Reality
وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ١٦
The sky will then be so torn that it will be frail
69:17
The Reality
وَٱلْمَلَكُ عَلَىٰٓ أَرْجَآئِهَا ۚ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَـٰنِيَةٌ١٧
with the angels on its sides. On that Day eight ˹mighty angels˺ will bear the Throne of your Lord above them.
69:18
The Reality
يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَىٰ مِنكُمْ خَافِيَةٌ١٨
You will then be presented ˹before Him for judgment˺, and none of your secrets will stay hidden.
69:19
The Reality
فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ فَيَقُولُ هَآؤُمُ ٱقْرَءُوا۟ كِتَـٰبِيَهْ١٩
As for those given their records in their right hand, they will cry ˹happily˺, “Here ˹everyone˺! Read my record!
69:20
The Reality
إِنِّى ظَنَنتُ أَنِّى مُلَـٰقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ٢٠
I surely knew I would face my reckoning.”