1. The Sure Reality!
2. What is the Sure Reality?
3. And what will make thee
realise what the Sure Reality
is?
4. The Thamud and the 'Ad People
(branded) as false the Stunning
Calamity!
5. But the Thamud,- they were
destroyed by a terrible Storm of
thunder and lightning!
6. And the 'Ad, they were
destroyed by a furious Wind,
exceedingly violent;
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!
8. Then seest thou any of them
left surviving?
9. And Pharaoh, and those before
him, and the Cities Overthrown,
committed habitual Sin.
10. And disobeyed (each) the
apostle of their Lord; so He
punished them with an abundant
Penalty.
11. We, when the water (of
Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond
its limits, carried you
(mankind), in the floating
(Ark),
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.
13. Then, when one blast is
sounded on the Trumpet,
14. And the earth is moved, and
its mountains, and they are
crushed to powder at one
stroke,-
15. On that Day shall the
(Great) Event come to pass.
16. And the sky will be rent
asunder, for it will that Day be
flimsy,
17. And the angels will be on
its sides, and eight will, that
Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord
above them.
18. That Day shall ye be brought
to Judgment: not an act of yours
that ye hide will be hidden.
19. Then he that will be given
his Record in his right hand
will say: "Ah here! Read ye my
Record!
20. "I did really understand
that my Account would (One Day)
reach me!"
21. And he will be in a life of
Bliss,
22. In a Garden on high,
23. The Fruits whereof (will
hang in bunches) low and near.
24. "Eat ye and drink ye, with
full satisfaction; because of
the (good) that ye sent before
you, in the days that are gone!"
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!
26. "And that I had never
realised how my account (stood)!
27. "Ah! Would that (Death) had
made an end of me!
28. "Of no profit to me has been
my wealth!
29. "My power has perished from
me!"...
30. (The stern command will
say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye
him,
31. "And burn ye him in the
Blazing Fire.
32. "Further, make him march in
a chain, whereof the length is
seventy cubits!
33. "This was he that would not
believe in Allah Most High.
34. "And would not encourage the
feeding of the indigent!
35. "So no friend hath he here
this Day.
36. "Nor hath he any food except
the corruption from the washing
of wounds,
37. "Which none do eat but those
in sin."
38. So I do call to witness what
ye see,
39. And what ye see not,
40. That this is verily the word
of an honoured apostle;
41. It is not the word of a
poet: little it is ye believe!
42. Nor is it the word of a
soothsayer: little admonition it
is ye receive.
43. (This is) a Message sent
down from the Lord of the
Worlds.
44. And if the apostle were to
invent any sayings in Our name,
45. We should certainly seize
him by his right hand,
46. And We should certainly then
cut off the artery of his heart:
47. Nor could any of you
withhold him (from Our wrath).
48. But verily this is a Message
for the Allah.fearing.
49. And We certainly know that
there are amongst you those that
reject (it).
50. But truly (Revelation) is a
cause of sorrow for the
Unbelievers.
51. But verily it is Truth of
assured certainty.
52. So glorify the name of thy
Lord Most High. |