# Surah 69

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> Surah 69
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> Al Haqqah (The Sure Reality)
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> In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
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> 1.  The Sure Reality!
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> 2.  What is the Sure Reality?
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> 3.  And what will make thee realize what the Sure Reality is?
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> 4.  The Thamud and the 'Ad people (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
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> 5.  But the Thamud--they were destroyed by a terrible storm of thunder and lightning!
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> 6.  And the 'Ad--they were destroyed by a furious wind, exceedingly violent;
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> 7.  He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: So that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as if they had been roots of hollow palm trees tumbled down!
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> 8.  Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
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> 9.  And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
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> 10.  And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
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> 11.  We, when the water (of Noah's flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark).
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> 12.  That We might make it a message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.
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> 13.  Then, when one Blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
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> 14.  And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke--
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> 15.  On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass,
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> 16.  And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
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> 17.  And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
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> 18.  That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
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> 19.  Then He that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! read ye my Record!
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> 20.  "I did really understand that my Account would (one Day) reach me!"
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> 21.  And he will be in a life of Bliss,
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> 22.  In a Garden on high,
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> 23.  The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
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> 24.  "Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you in the days that are gone!"
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> 25.  And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! would that my record had not been given to me!
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> 26.  "And that I had never realized how my account (stood)!
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> 27.  "Ah! would that (Death) had made an end of me!
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> 28.  "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
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> 29.  "My power has perished from me!"...
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> 30.  (The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
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> 31.  "And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
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> 32.  "Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
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> 33.  "This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High,
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> 34.  "And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
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> 35.  "So no friend hath he here this Day.
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> 36.  "Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
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> 37.  "Which none do eat but those in sin."
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> 38.  So I do call to witness what ye see
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> 39.  And what ye see not,
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> 40.  That this is verily the word of an honored messenger;
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> 41.  It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
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> 42.  Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
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> 43.  (This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
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> 44.  And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
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> 45.  We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
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> 46.  And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
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> 47.  Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
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> 48.  But verily this is a Message for the Allah-fearing.
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> 49.  And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it)
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> 50.  But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
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> 51.  But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
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> 52.  So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.
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> — *Surah 69*