69-1 : The Sure Reality!

69-2 : What is the Sure Reality?

69-3 : And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?

69-4 : The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!

69-5 : But the Thamud, - they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!

69-6 : And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;

69-7 : 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 they had been roots of hollow palm - trees tumbled down!

69-8 : Then seest thou any of them left surviving?

69-9 : And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.

69-10 : And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.

69-11 : We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),

69-12 : 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.

69-13 : Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,

69-14 : And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke, -

69-15 : On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.

69-16 : And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,

69-17 : And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.

69-18 : That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.

69-19 : Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!

69-20 : "I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"

69-21 : And he will be in a life of Bliss,

69-22 : In a Garden on high,

69-23 : The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.

69-24 : "Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"

69-25 : 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!

69-26 : "And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!

69-27 : "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!

69-28 : "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!

69-29 : "My power has perished from me!"...

69-30 : (The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,

69-31 : "And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.

69-32 : "Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!

69-33 : "This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.

69-34 : "And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!

69-35 : "So no friend hath he here this Day.

69-36 : "Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,

69-37 : "Which none do eat but those in sin."

69-38 : So I do call to witness what ye see,

69-39 : And what ye see not,

69-40 : That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;

69-41 : It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!

69-42 : Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.

69-43 : (This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.

69-44 : And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,

69-45 : We should certainly seize him by his right hand,

69-46 : And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:

69-47 : Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).

69-48 : But verily this is a Message for the Allah - fearing.

69-49 : And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).

69-50 : But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.

69-51 : But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.

69-52 : So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.