| 1 | The Inevitable (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)! | |
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| 2 | What is the Inevitable? | |
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| 3 | And what will make you know what the Inevitable is? | |
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| 4 | Thamud and 'Ad people denied the Qari'ah (the striking Hour of Judgement)! | |
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| 5 | As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the awful cry! | |
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| 6 | And as for 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious violent wind! | |
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| 7 | Which Allah imposed on them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so that you could see men lying overthrown (destroyed), as if they were hollow trunks of date-palms! | |
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| 8 | Do you see any remnants of them? | |
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| 9 | And Fir'aun (Pharaoh), and those before him, and the cities overthrown [the towns of the people of [Lut (Lot)] committed sin. | |
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| 10 | And they disobeyed their Lord's Messenger, so He seized them with a strong punishment. | |
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| 11 | Verily, when the water rose beyond its limits [Nuh's (Noah) Flood], We carried you (mankind) in the floating [ship that was constructed by Nuh (Noah)] | |
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| 12 | That We might make it (Noah's ship) an admonition for you and that it might be retained by the retaining ears. | |
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| 13 | Then when the Trumpet will be blown with one blowing (the first one). | |
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| 14 | And the earth and the mountains shall be removed from their places, and crushed with a single crushing. | |
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| 15 | Then on that Day shall the (Great) Event befall. | |
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| 16 | And the heaven will be rent asunder, for that Day it (the heaven) will be frail and torn up. | |
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| 17 | And the angels will be on its sides, and eight angels will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord above them. | |
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| 18 | That Day shall you be brought to Judgement, not a secret of you will be hidden. | |
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| 19 | Then as for him who will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Here! read my Record! | |
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| 20 | "Surely, I did believe that I shall meet my Account!" | |
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| 21 | So he shall be in a life, well-pleasing. | |
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| 22 | In a lofty Paradise, | |
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| 23 | The fruits in bunches whereof will be low and near at hand. | |
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| 24 | Eat and drink at ease for that which you have sent on before you in days past! | |
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| 25 | But as for him who will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "I wish that I had not been given my Record! | |
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| 26 | "And that I had never known how my Account is! | |
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| 27 | "Would that it had been my end (death)! | |
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| 28 | "My wealth has not availed me; | |
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| 29 | "My power (and arguments to defend myself) have gone from me!" | |
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| 30 | (It will be said): "Seize him and fetter him; | |
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| 31 | Then throw him in the blazing Fire. | |
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| 32 | "Then fasten him with a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits!" | |
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| 33 | Verily, he used not to believe in Allah, the Most Great, | |
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| 34 | And urged not on the feeding of Al-Miskin (the poor). | |
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| 35 | So no friend has he here this Day, | |
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| 36 | Nor any food except filth from the washing of wounds. | |
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| 37 | None will eat it except the Khati'un (sinners, disbelievers, polytheists). | |
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| 38 | So I swear by whatsoever you see, | |
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| 39 | And by whatsoever you see not, | |
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| 40 | That this is verily, the word of an honoured Messenger [i.e. Jibril (Gabriel) or Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم which he has brought from Allah]. | |
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| 41 | It is not the word of a poet: little is that you believe! | |
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| 42 | Nor is it the word of a soothsayer (or a foreteller): little is that you remember! | |
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| 43 | This is the Revelation sent down from the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists). | |
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| 44 | And if he (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) had forged a false saying concerning Us (Allah جل جلاله), | |
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| 45 | We surely would have seized him by his right hand (or with power and might), | |
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| 46 | And then We certainly would have cut off his life artery (aorta), | |
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| 47 | And none of you could have withheld Us from (punishing) him. | |
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| 48 | And verily, this (Qur'an) is a Reminder for the Muttaqun (the pious. See V.2:2). | |
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| 49 | And verily, We know that there are some among you that belie (this Qur'an). (Tafsir At-Tabari) | |
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| 50 | And indeed it (this Qur'an) will be an anguish for the disbelievers (on the Day of Resurrection). | |
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| 51 | And verily, it (this Qur'an) is an absolute truth with certainty. | |
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| 52 | So glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most Great. | |
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