| This Surah (Revealed) Meccan, consisting of 51 or 52 verses.(Al-Hâqqah)
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| بِسْم ِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ | |
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The Reality, the Resurrection in which is realised [the truth of] all that was
rejected in the way of the raising [from the graves], the reckoning and the requital, or [it means the
Resurrection] which will manifest all of that.
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What is the Reality? (maâl-hāqqa:
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| Ayah an interrogative] to emphasise its enormity;
this is the subject as well as the predicate of [the previous] al-hāqqa, âthe Realityâ).
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Tafseer
And how would you know what the Reality is? ([repeated as] an extra emphasis of
its enormity; the first mā [of the previous verse] is the subject, the second one, its predicate; the
second mā and its predicate also function as the second direct object of [the verb] âknowingâ).
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Thamūd and âĀd denied the Clatterer, the Resurrection, because its terrors cause
the hearts to clatter.
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As for Thamūd, they were destroyed by the [overwhelming] Roar, an excessively
severe cry.
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And as for âĀd, they were destroyed by a deafening, intensely clamorous, violent
wind, [that was] powerful and severe [in its assault] upon âĀd, despite their power and might.
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He forced it upon them for seven nights and eight days, the first of which was
the morning of Wednesday, eight days before the end of [the month of] Shawwāl, and this was at the height
of winter, successively, one after the next (husūman: it [the action of the wind] is likened to the repeated
actions of a hāsim, âone cauterizing a woundâ, time and again until it [the blood] has been cut off,
inhsama) so that you might have seen the people therein lying prostrate, lying dead on the ground, as if they
were the hollow, collapsed, trunks of palm-trees.
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So do you see any remnant of them? (min bāqiyatin: this is either the adjectival
qualification of an implicit nafs, âsoulâ, or the [final suffixed] tāâ is for hyperbole, in other words
[understand it as fa-hal tarā lahum] min bāqin, âany one remaining?â No!).
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And Pharaoh and those of his followers (man qibalahu: a variant reading has man
qablahu, that is to say, those disbelieving communities who came before him) and the Deviant [cities],
that is, their inhabitants â these being the cities of the people of Lot â brought iniquity, [they committed]
deeds that were iniquitous. 684
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Then they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, namely, Lot and others, so He
seized them with a devastating blow, one surpassing others in its severity.
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Truly when the waters rose high, [when] they rose above all things including
mountains and otherwise at the time of the Flood, We carried you, meaning, your forefathers, you being in
their loins, in the sailing vessel, the ark which Noah built and by which he and those with him were saved
while all the others drowned,
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so that We might make it, namely, this act, the saving of the believers and the
destruction of the disbelievers, a reminder, a lesson, for you and that receptive ears, [ears]
which remember what they hear, might remember it.
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Thus when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast, to [announce] the passing of
judgement upon all creatures â this being the second [blast] â
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and the earth and the mountains are lifted and levelled with a single levelling,
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then, on that day, the [imminent] Event will come to pass, the Resurrection will
take place,
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and the heaven will be rent asunder â for it will be very frail on that day â
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and the angels will be [all] over its borders, the edges of the heavens, and
above them â the angels that have been mentioned â on that day eight, angels or [eight] files of them, will
carry the Throne of your Lord.
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On that day you will be exposed, before the Reckoning. No hidden thing of yours,
in the way of secrets, will remain hidden (read [feminine person] takhfā or [masculine person] yakhfā).
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As for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say, addressing
those around him, on account of the joy that has come to him: âHere, take [and], read my book! (kitābiyah: both
hāâūmu, âhere [is]â, and iqraâū, âreadâ, compete for [government of] this [direct object]).
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I was truly certain that I would encounter my accountâ. 685
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So he will enjoy a pleasant living,
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in a lofty Garden,
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whose clusters, whose fruits, are in easy reach, nearby, reached [easily] by one
who may be standing, or sitting or reclining.
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And so it will be said to them: âEat and drink in enjoyment (hanīâan is a
circumstantial qualifier, that is to say, mutahanniâīna, âwhile you are enjoying [them]â) for what you did in advance
in former daysâ, [in days] that have passed during the [life of the] world.
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But as for him who is given his book in his left hand, he will say, âO (yā is
for calling attention [to something]) would that I had not been given my book,
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and not known what my account were!
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O would that it, namely, death in [the life of] this world, had been the [final]
end, that had terminated my life, so that I am not resurrected.
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