الحاقة
Surah Al-Haqqah
ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
The Inevitable Hour!
مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
What is the Inevitable Hour?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?
كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌۢ بِٱلْقَارِعَةِ
˹Both˺ Thamûd and ’Ȃd denied the Striking Disaster.1
فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ
As for Thamûd, they were destroyed by an overwhelming blast.
وَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِرِيحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍ
And as for ’Ȃd, they were destroyed by a furious, bitter wind
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَـٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ
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.
فَهَلْ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِيَةٍ
Do you see any of them left alive?
وَجَآءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَن قَبْلَهُۥ وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَـٰتُ بِٱلْخَاطِئَةِ
Also, Pharaoh and those before him, and ˹the people of˺ the overturned cities ˹of Lot˺ indulged in sin,
فَعَصَوْا۟ رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمْ أَخْذَةً رَّابِيَةً
each disobeying their Lord’s messenger, so He seized them with a crushing grip.
إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا ٱلْمَآءُ حَمَلْنَـٰكُمْ فِى ٱلْجَارِيَةِ
Indeed, when the floodwater had overflowed, We carried you1 in the floating Ark ˹with Noah˺,
لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌ وَٰعِيَةٌ
so that We may make this a reminder to you, and that attentive ears may grasp it.
فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ
At last, when the Trumpet will be blown with one blast,
وَحُمِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَٱلْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَٰحِدَةً
and the earth and mountains will be lifted up and crushed with one blow,
فَيَوْمَئِذٍ وَقَعَتِ ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ
on that Day the Inevitable Event will have come to pass.
وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ
The sky will then be so torn that it will be frail,
وَٱلْمَلَكُ عَلَىٰٓ أَرْجَآئِهَا ۚ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَـٰنِيَةٌ
with the angels on its sides. On that Day eight ˹mighty angels˺ will bear the Throne of your Lord above them.
يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَىٰ مِنكُمْ خَافِيَةٌ
You will then be presented ˹before Him for judgment˺, and none of your secrets will stay hidden.
فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ فَيَقُولُ هَآؤُمُ ٱقْرَءُوا۟ كِتَـٰبِيَهْ
As for those given their records in their right hand, they will cry ˹happily˺, “Here ˹everyone˺! Read my record!
إِنِّى ظَنَنتُ أَنِّى مُلَـٰقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ
I surely knew I would face my reckoning.”