# Sura  69 - The Inevitable

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> SURA LXIX - 69     The Inevitable  (Mecca - 52 verses)         (XLII - 58)   
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>               In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        The Inevitable!
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>        What is the Inevitable?
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>        And who shall make thee comprehend what the Inevitable is?
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>        Themoud and Ad treated the day of Terrors as a lie.
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>        So as to Themoud, they were destroyed by crashing thunder bolts;
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>        And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring and furious blast.
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>        It did the bidding of God against them seven nights and eight days
> together, during which thou mightest have seen the people laid low, as though
> they had been the trunks of hollow palm;
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>        And couldst thou have see one of them surviving?
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>        Pharaoh also, and those who flourished before him, and the overthrown
> cities, committed sin, -
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> 69-10  And disobeyed the Sent one of their Lord; therefore did he chastise them
> with an accumulated chastisement.
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>        When the Flood rose high, we bare you in the Ark,
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>        That we might make that event a warning to you, and that the retaining
> ear might retain it.
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>        But when one blast shall be blown on the trumpet,
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>        And the earth and the mountains shall be upheaved, and shall both be
> crushed into dust at a single crushing,
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>        On that day the woe that must come suddenly shall suddenly come,
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>        And the heaven shall cleave asunder, for on that day it shall be
> fragile;
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>        And the angels shall be on its sides, and over them on that day eight
> shall bear up the throne of thy Lord.
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>        On that day ye shall be brought before Him:  none of your hidden deeds
> shall remain hidden:
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>        And he who shall have his book given to him in his right hand, will say
> to his friend, "Take ye it; read ye my book;
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> 69:20  I ever thought that to this my reckoning I should come."
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>        And his shall be a life that shall please him well,
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>        In a lofty garden,
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>        Whose clusters shall be near at hand:
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>        "Eat ye and drink with healthy relish, as the meed of what ye sent on
> beforehand in the days which are past."
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>        But he who shall have his book given into his left hand, will say, "O
> that my book had never been given me!
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>        And that I had never known by reckoning!
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>        O that death had made an end of me!
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>        My wealth hath not profited me!
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>        My power hath perished from me!"
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> 69:30  "Lay ye hold on him and chain him,
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>        Then at the Hell-fire burn him,
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>        Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits thrust him;
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>        For he believed not in God, the Great,
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>        And was not careful to feed the poor;
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>        No friend therefore shall he have here this day,
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>        Nor food, but corrupt sores,
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>        Which none shall eat but the sinners."
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>        It needs not that I swear by what ye see,
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>        And by thst which ye see not,
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> 69:40  That this verily is the word of an apostle worthy of all honour!
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>        And that it is not the word of a poet - how little do ye believe!
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>        Neither is it the word of a soothsayer (Kahin) - how little do ye
> receive warning!
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>        It is a missive from the Lord of the worlds.
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>        But if Muhammad had fabricated concerning us any sayings,
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>        We had surely seized him by the right hand,
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>        And had cut through the vein of his neck.
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>        Nor would We have withheld any one of you from him.
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>        But, verily, It (the Koran) is a warning for the God-fearing;
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>        And we well know that there are of you who treat it as a falsehood.
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> 69:50  But it shall be the despair of infidels,
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>        For it is the very truth of sure knowledge.
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>        Praise, then, the name of thy Lord, the Great.
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> — *Sura  69 - The Inevitable*