Surah Al-Haqqah English Translation & Transliteration

¹That which will surely come to pass.

²What a terrifying thing it is!

³How could you know what a terrifying thing it is?

⁴Long ago, the peoples of Thamud and Ad denied these threats of Mine as lies.

⁵But the people of Thamud were destroyed by a violent quake.

⁶As for the people of Ad, they were destroyed by a fierce, devastating whirlwind.

⁷Allah made that whirlwind blow upon them without a break for seven nights and eight days, to wipe them out root and branch. You can picture them lying felled on the ground like the uprooted stumps of date palms.

⁸Now look: can you see anything left of them?

⁹Pharaoh, those before him, and many others, like the people of Lot whose towns were turned upside down, came and went. All of them were steeped in sin.

¹⁰Yes, all of them defied and rebelled against the messenger who conveyed their Lord's messages, and in the end Allah punished them all with an ever-mounting calamity.

¹¹When the waters overflowed in Noah's Flood, it was We who carried your forefathers in the ship.

¹²We did this so that it might be an admonition/warning for you, and so that attentive ears might never forget it.

¹³And at last, when the Trumpet (Sur) is blown with a single blast,

¹⁴when the earth and the mountains are torn from their places and crash against one another, shattered to pieces,

¹⁵on that day the great awaited event will have come to pass.

¹⁶On that day the sky will be split apart, for on that day it will have lost all its strength.

¹⁷On that day the angels will be all around the sky. On that day eight angels will bear the Throne of your Lord's sovereignty.

¹⁸On that day you will be brought before Allah, and not even your most hidden secrets will remain hidden.

¹⁹The one who is given his book from the right side will say: "Here is my record of deeds; take it and read it!"

²⁰"Yes, I knew that one day I would face the reckoning for what I had done."

²¹So he will find himself in a life that brings him happiness,

²²in lofty gardens of Paradise,

²³whose fruits will be brought within his reach on branches hanging low.

²⁴They will be told: "Eat and drink with relish, as a reward for what you did in your past life!"

²⁵But the one who is given his book from the left side will say: —Alas! If only I had never been given my record of deeds!

²⁶If only I had never known about my reckoning!

²⁷If only death had been the end of everything!

²⁸My wealth and property have been of no use to me.

²⁹All my power, too, has vanished.

³⁰Then the keepers of Hell will be commanded: —Seize him and bind him!

³¹—Then fling him into Hell!

³²Then shackle him in a chain seventy cubits long!

³³For he did not believe and trust in Allah, the Exalted.

³⁴Nor would he take the lead in feeding the poor.

³⁵Today he has no friend at all.

³⁶That is why today he has no food but pus.

³⁷For that pus is food for the sinful alone.

³⁸No more needs saying: by all that you can see,

³⁹and by all that you cannot see, I swear

⁴⁰that this Quran is most certainly the word of a noble and honorable messenger.

⁴¹So it is not the word of a poet. You do not believe this truth at all.

⁴²Nor is this Quran the word of a soothsayer. But you give no thought to this at all.

⁴³It is sent down from Allah, the Lord of the worlds.

⁴⁴Had he invented certain words and attributed them to Us,

⁴⁵We would have seized him firmly with Our might,

⁴⁶and then We would have severed his life vein,

⁴⁷and none of you could have prevented it.

⁴⁸Surely this Quran is an admonition and a warning for those who guard themselves against defying Allah.

⁴⁹We certainly know very well those among you who deny it.

⁵⁰At the same time, this Quran is a source of burning anguish for the disbelievers who cover up the truth.

⁵¹For this Quran is the certain and absolute truth.

⁵²So act only by the command of your Lord, the Exalted!