— 52 verses
The Inevitable Truth
What is the Inevitable Truth
And what makes you realize what the Inevitable Truth is
Thamud and c?d cried lies to the Smiter
So, as for Tham?d, they were made to perish by the inordinate (storm)
And as for c?d, they were then made to perish by a wind most clamorous (and) furious (Literally: rebellious)
He subjected it against them seven nights and eight days in gruesome succession, so that you might have seen the people laid overthrown in it as if they were the hollow stumps of devastated palm- trees
So do you see any remnant of them
And Firaawn (Pharaoh) came, (i.e., after Thamud and Aad) and whoever were before him and the (cities of) falsehood, (i.e., the people of Lut "Lot") with their (habitual) sinfulness
Then they disobeyed the Messenger of their Lord, so He took them (away) with a surpassing grip (Literally: swelling taking)
Surely, as soon as the water (s) overflowed, (Literally: was inordinate) We carried you in the running ship
That We might make it a Reminder for you and for heeding ear (s) to heed
So, when the Trumpet is blown with one blowing
And the earth and the mountains are borne up, then they are pounded one pounding
Then, upon that Day, the Inevitable Event will be fall
And the heaven will be cloven. So, upon that Day it will be (very) frail
And the (commanded) Angels will be upon its dimensions, and upon that Day eight will bear above them the Throne of your Lord
Upon that Day you will be set before (them), not one concealed (secret) of yours will be concealed
So, as for him whose book is brought to him in (Literally: with) his right hand, he will then say, " (Now), here you are! Read my book
Surely I expected that I should meet my reckoning."
So he will be in a satisfied livelihood
In an exalted Garden
Its picked (fruits) (are) within (easy) reach
"Eat and drink rejoicing with wholesome appetite for what you previously did in the days gone-by."
And as for him whose book is brought to him in his left (hand), he will then say, "oh, would that my book had not been brought to me
And that I had not realized my reckoning
Oh, would that it had been the decreed end
In no way has my wealth availed me
My (own) all-binding authority has perished away from me."
"Take him, and shackle him up
Thereafter roast him in Hell-Fire
Thereafter in a chain of seventy cubits' length insert him
Surely he used not to believe in Allah The Ever-Magnificent
And he did not urge (offering) food to the indigent
So today he has not here now (any) intimate (friend)
Neither any food except of foul refuse
(That) none except the sinners eat."
Yet no, I swear by whatever you behold
And whatever you do not behold
Surely it is indeed the saying of an honorable Messenger
And in no way is it the saying of a poet- little do you believe
Nor the saying of a soothsayer- little are you mindful of
A successive sending down from The Lord of the worlds
And if he had talked up against Us any (Literally: some) (false) sayings
Indeed We would have taken (him) by the right hand
Thereafter indeed We would have cut (off) (his) aorta
Then in no way would anyone of you (be) debarring (Us) from him
And surely it is indeed a Reminder to the pious
And surely We indeed know that (some) among you are beliers
And surely it is indeed a (source of) regret to the disbelievers
And surely it is indeed the Truth of certitude
So extol with the Name of your Lord, The Ever-Magnificent