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ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
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69:1
The Inevitable Hour!
Chapter 69
Meccan
69
Al-Haqqah
الحاقة
The Opening
Verses
52
Revealed in
Mecca
أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the accursed one
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
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مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
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69:2
What is the Inevitable Hour?
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
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69:3
And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?
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كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌۢ بِٱلْقَارِعَةِ
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69:4
˹Both˺ Thamûd and ’Ȃd denied the Striking Disaster.1
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فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ
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69:5
As for Thamûd, they were destroyed by an overwhelming blast.
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وَأَمَّا عَادٌۭ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِرِيحٍۢ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍۢ
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69:6
And as for ’Ȃd, they were destroyed by a furious, bitter wind
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سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍۢ وَثَمَـٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًۭا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍۢ
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69:7
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.
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فَهَلْ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِيَةٍۢ
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69:8
Do you see any of them left alive?
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وَجَآءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَن قَبْلَهُۥ وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَـٰتُ بِٱلْخَاطِئَةِ
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69:9
Also, Pharaoh and those before him, and ˹the people of˺ the overturned cities ˹of Lot˺ indulged in sin,
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فَعَصَوْا۟ رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمْ أَخْذَةًۭ رَّابِيَةً
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69:10
each disobeying their Lord’s messenger, so He seized them with a crushing grip.
11
إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا ٱلْمَآءُ حَمَلْنَـٰكُمْ فِى ٱلْجَارِيَةِ
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69:11
Indeed, when the floodwater had overflowed, We carried you1 in the floating Ark ˹with Noah˺,
12
لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةًۭ وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌۭ وَٰعِيَةٌۭ
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69:12
so that We may make this a reminder to you, and that attentive ears may grasp it.
13
فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌۭ وَٰحِدَةٌۭ
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69:13
At last, when the Trumpet will be blown with one blast,
14
وَحُمِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَٱلْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ
﴿14﴾
69:14
and the earth and mountains will be lifted up and crushed with one blow,
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فَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ وَقَعَتِ ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ
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69:15
on that Day the Inevitable Event will have come to pass.
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وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ وَاهِيَةٌۭ
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69:16
The sky will then be so torn that it will be frail,
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وَٱلْمَلَكُ عَلَىٰٓ أَرْجَآئِهَا ۚ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ ثَمَـٰنِيَةٌۭ
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69:17
with the angels on its sides. On that Day eight ˹mighty angels˺ will bear the Throne of your Lord above them.
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يَوْمَئِذٍۢ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَىٰ مِنكُمْ خَافِيَةٌۭ
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69:18
You will then be presented ˹before Him for judgment˺, and none of your secrets will stay hidden.
19
فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ فَيَقُولُ هَآؤُمُ ٱقْرَءُوا۟ كِتَـٰبِيَهْ
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69:19
As for those given their records in their right hand, they will cry ˹happily˺, “Here ˹everyone˺! Read my record!
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إِنِّى ظَنَنتُ أَنِّى مُلَـٰقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ
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69:20
I surely knew I would face my reckoning.”
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فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍۢ رَّاضِيَةٍۢ
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69:21
They will be in a life of bliss,
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فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍۢ
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69:22
in an elevated Garden,
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قُطُوفُهَا دَانِيَةٌۭ
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69:23
whose fruit will hang within reach.
24
كُلُوا۟ وَٱشْرَبُوا۟ هَنِيٓـًٔۢا بِمَآ أَسْلَفْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَيَّامِ ٱلْخَالِيَةِ
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69:24
˹They will be told,˺ “Eat and drink joyfully for what you did in the days gone by.”
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وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ بِشِمَالِهِۦ فَيَقُولُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى لَمْ أُوتَ كِتَـٰبِيَهْ
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69:25
And as for those given their record in their left hand, they will cry ˹bitterly˺, “I wish I had not been given my record,
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وَلَمْ أَدْرِ مَا حِسَابِيَهْ
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69:26
nor known anything of my reckoning!
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يَـٰلَيْتَهَا كَانَتِ ٱلْقَاضِيَةَ
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69:27
I wish death was the end!
28
مَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنِّى مَالِيَهْ ۜ
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69:28
My wealth has not benefited me!
29
هَلَكَ عَنِّى سُلْطَـٰنِيَهْ
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69:29
My authority has been stripped from me.”
30
خُذُوهُ فَغُلُّوهُ
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69:30
˹It will be said,˺ “Seize and shackle them,
