Transliteration

Al haaaqqah

Translation

The Inevitable Hour!

Transliteration

Mal haaaqqah

Translation

What is the Inevitable Hour?

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Wa maaa adraaka mal haaaqqah

Translation

And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?

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Kazzabat samoodu wa 'Aadum bil qaari'ah

Translation

˹Both˺ Thamûd and ’Ȃd denied the Striking Disaster.

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Fa-ammaa Samoodu fa uhlikoo bittaaghiyah

Translation

As for Thamûd, they were destroyed by an overwhelming blast.

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Wa ammaa 'Aadun fa uhlikoo bi reehin sarsarin 'aatiyah

Translation

And as for ’Ȃd, they were destroyed by a furious, bitter wind

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Sakkhara haa 'alaihim sab'a la yaalinw wa samaaniyata ayyaamin husooman fataral qawma feehaa sar'aa ka annahum a'jaazu nakhlin khaawiyah

Translation

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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Fahal taraa lahum min baaqiyah

Translation

Do you see any of them left alive?

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Wa jaaa'a Firawnu wa man qablahoo wal mu'tafikaatu bil khaati'ah

Translation

Also, Pharaoh and those before him, and ˹the people of˺ the overturned cities ˹of Lot˺ indulged in sin,

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Fa 'asaw Rasoola Rabbihim fa akhazahum akhzatar raabiyah

Translation

each disobeying their Lord’s messenger, so He seized them with a crushing grip.

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Innaa lammaa taghal maaa'u hamalnaakum fil jaariyah

Translation

Indeed, when the floodwater had overflowed, We carried you in the floating Ark ˹with Noah˺,

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Li naj'alahaa lakum tazki ratanw-wa ta'iyahaa uzununw waa'iyah

Translation

so that We may make this a reminder to you, and that attentive ears may grasp it.

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Fa izaa nufikha fis soori nafkhatunw waahidah

Translation

At last, when the Trumpet will be blown with one blast,

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Wa humilatil ardu wal jibaalu fadukkataa dakkatanw waahidah

Translation

and the earth and mountains will be lifted up and crushed with one blow,

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Fa yawma'izinw waqa'atil waaqi'ah

Translation

on that Day the Inevitable Event will have come to pass.

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Wanshaqqatis samaaa'u fahiya yawma 'izinw-waahiyah

Translation

The sky will then be so torn that it will be frail,

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Wal malaku 'alaaa arjaaa'ihaa; wa yahmilu 'Arsha Rabbika fawqahum yawma'izin samaaniyah

Translation

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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Yawma'izin tu'radoona laa takhfaa min kum khaafiyah

Translation

You will then be presented ˹before Him for judgment˺, and none of your secrets will stay hidden.

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Fa ammaa man ootiya kitaabahoo biyameenihee fa yaqoolu haaa'umuq ra'oo kitaabiyah

Translation

As for those given their records in their right hand, they will cry ˹happily˺, “Here ˹everyone˺! Read my record!

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Innee zannantu annee mulaaqin hisaabiyah

Translation

I surely knew I would face my reckoning.”

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Fahuwa fee 'eeshatir raadiyah

Translation

They will be in a life of bliss,

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Fee jannnatin 'aaliyah

Translation

in an elevated Garden,

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Qutoofuhaa daaniyah

Translation

whose fruit will hang within reach.

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Kuloo washraboo haneee'am bimaaa aslaftum fil ayyaamil khaliyah

Translation

˹They will be told,˺ “Eat and drink joyfully for what you did in the days gone by.”

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Wa ammaa man ootiya kitaabahoo bishimaalihee fa yaqoolu yaalaitanee lam oota kitaaabiyah

Translation

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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Wa lam adri maa hisaabiyah

Translation

nor known anything of my reckoning!

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Yaa laitahaa kaanatil qaadiyah

Translation

I wish death was the end!

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Maaa aghnaa 'annee maaliyah

Translation

My wealth has not benefited me!

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Halaka 'annee sultaaniyah

Translation

My authority has been stripped from me.”

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Khuzoohu faghullooh

Translation

˹It will be said,˺ “Seize and shackle them,

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Summal Jaheema sallooh

Translation

then burn them in Hell,

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Summa fee silsilatin zar'uhaa sab'oona ziraa'an faslukooh

Translation

then tie them up with chains seventy arms long.

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Innahoo kaana laa yu'minu billaahil 'Azeem

Translation

For they never had faith in Allah, the Greatest,

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Wa laa yahuddu 'alaa ta'aamil miskeen

Translation

nor encouraged the feeding of the poor.

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Falaysa lahul yawma haahunaa hameem

Translation

So this Day they will have no close friend here,

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Wa laa ta'aamun illaa min ghisleen

Translation

nor any food except ˹oozing˺ pus,

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Laa ya'kuluhooo illal khaati'oon

Translation

which none will eat except the evildoers.”

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Falaaa uqsimu bimaa tubsiroon

Translation

Now, I do swear by whatever you see,

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Wa maa laa tubsiroon

Translation

and whatever you cannot see!

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Innahoo laqawlu Rasoolin kareem

Translation

Indeed, this ˹Quran˺ is the recitation of a noble Messenger.

Transliteration

Wa maa huwa biqawli shaa'ir; qaleelan maa tu'minoon

Translation

It is not the prose of a poet ˹as you claim˺, ˹yet˺ you hardly have any faith.

Transliteration

Wa laa biqawli kaahin; qaleelan maa tazakkaroon

Translation

Nor is it the mumbling of a fortune-teller, ˹yet˺ you are hardly mindful.

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Tanzeelum mir rabbil 'aalameen

Translation

˹It is˺ a revelation from the Lord of all worlds.

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Wa law taqawwala 'alainaa ba'dal aqaaweel

Translation

Had the Messenger made up something in Our Name,

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La-akhaznaa minhu bilyameen

Translation

We would have certainly seized him by his right hand,

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Summa laqata'naa minhul wateen

Translation

then severed his aorta,

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Famaa minkum min ahadin'anhu haajizeen

Translation

and none of you could have shielded him ˹from Us˺!

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Wa innahoo latazkiratul lilmuttaqeen

Translation

Indeed, this ˹Quran˺ is a reminder to those mindful ˹of Allah˺.

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Wa inna lana'lamu anna minkum mukazzibeen

Translation

And We certainly know that some of you will persist in denial,

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Wa innahu lahasratun 'alal kaafireen

Translation

and it will surely be a source of regret for the disbelievers.

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Wa innahoo lahaqqul yaqeen

Translation

And indeed, this ˹Quran˺ is the absolute truth.

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Fassabbih bismi Rabbikal 'Azeem

Translation

So glorify the Name of your Lord, the Greatest.