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 Surah Al-Haqqah 69:1-14 [1/2]
  
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ٱلْحَآقَّةُThe Inevitable Reality!
﴿١﴾
مَاWhat
ٱلْحَآقَّةُ(is) the Inevitable Reality?
﴿٢﴾
وَمَآAnd what
أَدْرَٮٰكَwill make you know
مَاwhat
ٱلْحَآقَّةُ(is) the Inevitable Reality?
﴿٣﴾
كَذَّبَتْDenied
ثَمُودُThamud
وَعَادُۢand Aad
بِٱلْقَارِعَةِthe Striking Calamity.
﴿٤﴾
فَأَمَّاSo as for
ثَمُودُThamud,
فَأُهْلِكُواْthey were destroyed
بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِby the overpowering (blast).
﴿٥﴾
وَأَمَّاAnd as for
عَادٌAad,
فَأُهْلِكُواْthey were destroyed
بِرِيحٍby a wind
صَرْصَرٍscreaming
عَاتِيَةٍviolent,
﴿٦﴾
سَخَّرَهَاWhich He imposed
عَلَيْهِمْupon them
سَبْعَ(for) seven
لَيَالٍnights
وَثَمَـٰنِيَةَand eight
أَيَّامٍdays
حُسُومًا(in) succession,
فَتَرَىso you would see
ٱلْقَوْمَthe people
فِيهَاtherein
صَرْعَىٰfallen
كَأَنَّهُمْas if they were
أَعْجَازُtrunks
نَخْلٍ(of) date-palms
خَاوِيَةٍhollow.
﴿٧﴾
فَهَلْThen do
تَرَىٰyou see
لَهُمof them
مِّنۢany
بَاقِيَةٍremains?
﴿٨﴾
وَجَآءَAnd came
فِرْعَوْنُFiraun,
وَمَن قَبْلَهُۥand (those) before him,
وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَـٰتُand the overturned cities
بِٱلْخَاطِئَةِwith sin.
﴿٩﴾
فَعَصَوْاْAnd they disobeyed
رَسُولَ(the) Messenger
رَبِّهِمْ(of) their Lord,
فَأَخَذَهُمْso He seized them
أَخْذَةً(with) a seizure
رَّابِيَةًexceeding.
﴿١٠﴾
إِنَّاIndeed, We
لَمَّاwhen
طَغَاoverflowed
ٱلْمَآءُthe water,
حَمَلْنَـٰكُمْWe carried you
فِىin
ٱلْجَارِيَةِthe sailing (ship).
﴿١١﴾
لِنَجْعَلَهَاThat We might make it
لَكُمْfor you
تَذْكِرَةًa reminder
وَتَعِيَهَآand would be conscious of it
أُذُنٌan ear
وَٲعِيَةٌconscious.
﴿١٢﴾
فَإِذَاThen when
نُفِخَis blown
فِىin
ٱلصُّورِthe trumpet -
نَفْخَةٌa blast
وَٲحِدَةٌsingle.
﴿١٣﴾
وَحُمِلَتِAnd are lifted
ٱلْأَرْضُthe earth
وَٱلْجِبَالُand the mountains
فَدُكَّتَاand crushed
دَكَّةً(with) a crushing
وَٲحِدَةًsingle.
﴿١٤﴾


بِسۡمِ اللهِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِيۡمِ اَلۡحَـآقَّةُ ۙ‏  مَا الۡحَـآقَّةُ​ ۚ‏  وَمَاۤ اَدۡرٰٮكَ مَا الۡحَـآقَّةُ ؕ‏  كَذَّبَتۡ ثَمُوۡدُ وَعَادٌۢ بِالۡقَارِعَةِ‏  فَاَمَّا ثَمُوۡدُ فَاُهۡلِكُوۡا بِالطَّاغِيَةِ‏  وَاَمَّا عَادٌ فَاُهۡلِكُوۡا بِرِيۡحٍ صَرۡصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍۙ‏  سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ سَبۡعَ لَيَالٍ وَّثَمٰنِيَةَ اَيَّامٍۙ حُسُوۡمًا ۙ فَتَرَى الۡقَوۡمَ فِيۡهَا صَرۡعٰىۙ كَاَنَّهُمۡ اَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ​ ۚ‏  فَهَلۡ تَرٰى لَهُمۡ مِّنۡۢ بَاقِيَةٍ‏  وَجَآءَ فِرۡعَوۡنُ وَمَنۡ قَبۡلَهٗ وَالۡمُؤۡتَفِكٰتُ بِالۡخَـاطِئَةِ​ۚ‏  فَعَصَوۡا رَسُوۡلَ رَبِّهِمۡ فَاَخَذَهُمۡ اَخۡذَةً رَّابِيَةً‏  اِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا الۡمَآءُ حَمَلۡنٰكُمۡ فِى الۡجَارِيَةِ ۙ‏  لِنَجۡعَلَهَا لَـكُمۡ تَذۡكِرَةً وَّتَعِيَهَاۤ اُذُنٌ وَّاعِيَةٌ‏  فَاِذَا نُفِخَ فِى الصُّوۡرِ نَفۡخَةٌ وَّاحِدَةٌ ۙ‏  وَحُمِلَتِ الۡاَرۡضُ وَ الۡجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَّاحِدَةً ۙ‏ 

Translation
(69:1) The indubitable event!1 (69:2) And what is that indubitable event? (69:3) And what do you know what that indubitable event is?2 (69:4) The Thamud3 and the Ad denied the (possibility of a) sudden calamity,4 calling it false. (69:5) Then the Thamud were destroyed by an awesome upheaval;5 (69:6) and the Ad were destroyed by a furiously raging wind-storm (69:7) 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. (69:8) Do you now see any trace of them? (69:9) Pharaoh and those before him and the people of the overturned habitations6 all engaged in the same great sin. (69:10) They did not follow the Messenger of their Lord, and so He seized them with a severe grip. (69:11) Verily when the water rose to great heights,7 We bore you upon a floating vessel (i.e. the Ark)8 (69:12) so that We might make it an instructive event for you, and retentive ears might preserve its memory.9 (69:13) So10 when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast (69:14) and the earth and the mountains are carried aloft and are crushed to bits at one stroke,

Commentary

1. The word al-Haaqqah as used in the text means an event which has inevitably to take place and the occurrence of which in the future is so certain as to admit of no doubt or suspicion. To use this word for Resurrection and to begin the discourse with it by itself shows that the people were denying its occurrence. They are being told: That which you are denying is inevitable: your denial will not prevent its occurrence.

2. These two questions, one after the other, have been put to arouse the listeners, to make them understand the importance of the theme and listen to what follows with full attention.

3. As the disbelievers of Makkah denied Resurrection and took the news of its coming lightly, they have been warned at the outset, as if to say: Resurrection is inevitable: whether you believe in it or not, it will in any case take place. Then, they are told: It is not a simple and ordinary thing that a person accepts the news of the coming of an event or not, but it has a deep relationship with the morals of the nations and with their future. The history of the nations, which lived before you, testifies that the nation which refused to believe in the Hereafter and thought this worldly life only to be the real life and denied that man would have ultimately to render an account of his deeds before God, corrupted itself morally until the punishment of God overtook it and eliminated it from the world.

4. The word al-qariah is derived from qar, which means to hammer, to beat, to knock and to strike one thing upon the other. This other word for Resurrection has been used to give an idea of its terror and dread.

5. In Surah (Al-Aaraf, Ayat 78), it has been called ar-rajfah (a terrible earthquake); in (Surah Houd, Ayat 67) as-sayhah (a violent blast); in (Surah HaMim As-Sajdah, Ayat 17), it has been said: They were overtaken by saiqa-tul-adhab (a humiliating scourge); and here the same punishment has been described as at-taghiyah (a violent catastrophe). These words describe different aspects of the same calamity.

6. The reference is to the towns and settlements of the people of the Prophet Lot (peace upon be him), about which it has been said in( Surah Houd, Ayat 82) and( Surah Al-Hijr, Ayat 74), We turned them upside down.

7. The illusion is to the deluge of the Prophet Noah (peace be upon him), in which a whole nation was drowned because of this very crime, and only those people were saved, who had listened to and obeyed the Messenger of Allah.

8. We boarded you: Because the whole human race that exists today has descended from the people who were boarded in the Ark thousands of years ago and thus saved from the deluge. It means: You exist in the world today because in that deluge Allah had caused only the infidels to be drowned and had saved the believers.

9. The conscious ears: the ears which may hear it consciously and take it in. Although the word ear has been used, it implies the hearers who may hear the event and always remember it, take heed from it, and may never forget what dreadful fate the deniers of the Hereafter and the disbelievers of the Messenger of God would ultimately suffer.

10. While reading the following verses one should keep in mind that at some places in the Quran the three stages of Resurrection which will occur one after the other at different times have been mentioned separately, and at others all the three have been combined and mentioned as a single event. For example, in (Surah An-Naml, Ayat 87) the first blowing of the Trumpet has been mentioned, when everyone will be suddenly struck with terror. At that time they will witness the general confusion and the upsetting of the order of the universe, as described in (Surah Al-Hajj, Ayats 1-2); (Surah YaSeen, Ayats 49-50) and (Surah At- Takweer, Ayats 1-6). In (Surah Az-Zumar, Ayats 67-70), mention has been made of the second and third blowing of the Trumpet. On the second blowing of it everyone will fall down dead, and when it is blown for the third time, all dead men will rise back to life and present themselves before Allah. In (Surah TaHa, Ayats 102-112); (Surah Al-Anbiya, Ayats 101-103); (Surah YaSeen, Ayats 51-53 )and (Surah Qaf, Ayats 20-22), only the third sounding of the Trumpet has been mentioned. (For explanation, see (E.N. 78 of Surah TaHa); (E.N. 1 of Surah Al-Hajj); (E.Ns 46, 47 of Surah YaSeen). But here and at many other places in the Quran all the events of Resurrection, from the blowing of the first Trumpet till the people’s entry into Heaven and Hell have been described as a single event.