Surah Al-Haaqqa

The Inevitable Reality -

What is the Inevitable Reality?

And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?

Thamūd and ʿAad denied the Striking Calamity [i.e., the Resurrection].

So as for Thamūd, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast].

And as for ʿAad, they were destroyed by a screaming,1 violent wind

Which He [i.e., Allāh] imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

Then do you see of them any remains?

And there came Pharaoh and those before him and the overturned cities1 with sin.

And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with a seizure exceeding [in severity].

Indeed, when the water overflowed, We carried you [i.e., your ancestors] in the sailing ship1

That We might make it for you a reminder and [that] a conscious ear would be conscious of it.

Then when the Horn is blown with one blast

And the earth and the mountains are lifted and leveled with one blow [i.e., stroke] -

Then on that Day, the Occurrence [i.e., Resurrection] will occur,

And the heaven will split [open], for that Day it is infirm.1

And the angels are at its edges. And there will bear the Throne of your Lord above them, that Day, eight [of them].

That Day, you will be exhibited [for judgement]; not hidden among you is anything concealed.1

So as for he who is given his record in his right hand, he will say, "Here, read my record!

Indeed, I was certain that I would be meeting my account."