Hâkka Sûresi Abul Ala Maududi Meâli

The indubitable event! ﴾ 1 ﴿
And what is that indubitable event? ﴾ 2 ﴿
And what do you know what that indubitable event is? ﴾ 3 ﴿
The Thamud and the Ad denied the (possibility of a) sudden calamity, calling it false. ﴾ 4 ﴿
Then the Thamud were destroyed by an awesome upheaval; ﴾ 5 ﴿
and the Ad were destroyed by a furiously raging wind-storm ﴾ 6 ﴿
which He let loose upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession; so that (if you had been there) you might have seen people lying prostrate, as though they were uprooted trunks of hollowed palm trees. ﴾ 7 ﴿
Do you now see any trace of them? ﴾ 8 ﴿
Pharaoh and those before him and the people of the overturned habitations all engaged in the same great sin. ﴾ 9 ﴿
They did not follow the Messenger of their Lord, and so He seized them with a severe grip. ﴾ 10 ﴿
Verily when the water rose to great heights, We bore you upon a floating vessel (i.e. the Ark) ﴾ 11 ﴿
so that We might make it an instructive event for you, and retentive ears might preserve its memory. ﴾ 12 ﴿
So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast ﴾ 13 ﴿
and the earth and the mountains are carried aloft and are crushed to bits at one stroke, ﴾ 14 ﴿
on that Day shall that indubitable event come to pass; ﴾ 15 ﴿
when the sky will be rent asunder, the grip holding it together having loosened on that Day, ﴾ 16 ﴿
and the angels will stand on the sides, with eight of them bearing aloft the Throne of your Lord on that Day. ﴾ 17 ﴿
That will be the Day when you shall be brought forth (before Allah) and no secret of yours shall remain hidden. ﴾ 18 ﴿
On that Day, he whose Record is given to him in his right hand will say: “Lo! Read my Record! ﴾ 19 ﴿
Verily I was sure that I would be handed over my account.” ﴾ 20 ﴿
Then he shall find himself in a life of bliss; ﴾ 21 ﴿
in a lofty Garden ﴾ 22 ﴿
the clusters of whose fruit will be hanging low to be within reach (of the inmates of Paradise). ﴾ 23 ﴿
(They will be told): “Eat and drink with good cheer as a reward for the good deeds you did in the days that have passed by.” ﴾ 24 ﴿
As for him whose Record will be given to him in his left hand, he will exclaim: “Would that I had never been given my Record, ﴾ 25 ﴿
and had not known my account. ﴾ 26 ﴿
Oh! Would that the death that came to me in the world had made an end of me! ﴾ 27 ﴿
My riches have not availed me, ﴾ 28 ﴿
and my authority has vanished.” ﴾ 29 ﴿
(A command will be issued): “Seize him and shackle him, ﴾ 30 ﴿
then cast him in the Fire, ﴾ 31 ﴿
then fasten him with a chain, seventy cubits long. ﴾ 32 ﴿
He would not believe in Allah, the Most Great; ﴾ 33 ﴿
nor would he urge the feeding of the poor. ﴾ 34 ﴿
Today he has been left here friendless; ﴾ 35 ﴿
and has no food except the filth from the washing of wounds, ﴾ 36 ﴿
which only the sinners will eat.” ﴾ 37 ﴿
But no; I swear by what you see, ﴾ 38 ﴿
and by what you do not see, ﴾ 39 ﴿
that this is the speech of an honourable Messenger, ﴾ 40 ﴿
not the speech of a poet. Little do you believe! ﴾ 41 ﴿
Nor is this the speech of a soothsayer. Little do you reflect! ﴾ 42 ﴿
It has been revealed by the Lord of the Universe. ﴾ 43 ﴿
And if he [i.e., the Prophets] had forged this Discourse and thereafter ascribed it to Us, ﴾ 44 ﴿
We would surely have seized him by the right hand, ﴾ 45 ﴿
and then severed his life vein; ﴾ 46 ﴿
and not one of you would have been able to withhold Us from doing so. ﴾ 47 ﴿
Surely it is a Good Counsel for the God-fearing. ﴾ 48 ﴿
We certainly know that some among you will give the lie to it, ﴾ 49 ﴿
and surely it will be a cause of regret for the unbelievers. ﴾ 50 ﴿
Certainly it is a Truth of absolute certainty. ﴾ 51 ﴿
So glorify the name of your Lord Most Great. ﴾ 52 ﴿