مصحف الثريا

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱلْحَآقَّةُ ۝١

The indubitable event!

مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ ۝٢

And what is that indubitable event?

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ ۝۳

And what do you know what that indubitable event is?

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌۢ بِٱلْقَارِعَةِ ۝٤

The Thamud and the Ad denied the (possibility of a) sudden calamity, calling it false.

فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ ۝٥

Then the Thamud were destroyed by an awesome upheaval;

وَأَمَّا عَادٌۭ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِرِيحٍۢ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍۢ ۝٦

and the Ad were destroyed by a furiously raging wind-storm

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍۢ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًۭا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍۢ ۝۷

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.

فَهَلْ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِيَةٍۢ ۝۸

Do you now see any trace of them?

وَجَآءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَن قَبْلَهُۥ وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَٰتُ بِٱلْخَاطِئَةِ ۝۹

Pharaoh and those before him and the people of the overturned habitations all engaged in the same great sin.

فَعَصَوْا۟ رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمْ أَخْذَةًۭ رَّابِيَةً ۝١۰

They did not follow the Messenger of their Lord, and so He seized them with a severe grip.

إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا ٱلْمَآءُ حَمَلْنَٰكُمْ فِى ٱلْجَارِيَةِ ۝١١

Verily when the water rose to great heights, We bore you upon a floating vessel (i.e. the Ark)

لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةًۭ وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌۭ وَٰعِيَةٌۭ ۝١٢

so that We might make it an instructive event for you, and retentive ears might preserve its memory.

فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌۭ وَٰحِدَةٌۭ ۝١۳

So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast

وَحُمِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَٱلْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ ۝١٤

and the earth and the mountains are carried aloft and are crushed to bits at one stroke,

فَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ وَقَعَتِ ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ ۝١٥

on that Day shall that indubitable event come to pass;

وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ وَاهِيَةٌۭ ۝١٦

when the sky will be rent asunder, the grip holding it together having loosened on that Day,

وَٱلْمَلَكُ عَلَىٰٓ أَرْجَآئِهَا ۚ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ ثَمَٰنِيَةٌۭ ۝١۷

and the angels will stand on the sides, with eight of them bearing aloft the Throne of your Lord on that Day.

يَوْمَئِذٍۢ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَىٰ مِنكُمْ خَافِيَةٌۭ ۝١۸

That will be the Day when you shall be brought forth (before Allah) and no secret of yours shall remain hidden.

فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ فَيَقُولُ هَآؤُمُ ٱقْرَءُوا۟ كِتَٰبِيَهْ ۝١۹

On that Day, he whose Record is given to him in his right hand will say: “Lo! Read my Record!

إِنِّى ظَنَنتُ أَنِّى مُلَٰقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ ۝٢۰

Verily I was sure that I would be handed over my account.”

فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍۢ رَّاضِيَةٍۢ ۝٢١

Then he shall find himself in a life of bliss;

فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍۢ ۝٢٢

in a lofty Garden

قُطُوفُهَا دَانِيَةٌۭ ۝٢۳

the clusters of whose fruit will be hanging low to be within reach (of the inmates of Paradise).

كُلُوا۟ وَٱشْرَبُوا۟ هَنِيٓـًٔۢا بِمَآ أَسْلَفْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَيَّامِ ٱلْخَالِيَةِ ۝٢٤

(They will be told): “Eat and drink with good cheer as a reward for the good deeds you did in the days that have passed by.”

وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَٰبَهُۥ بِشِمَالِهِۦ فَيَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى لَمْ أُوتَ كِتَٰبِيَهْ ۝٢٥

As for him whose Record will be given to him in his left hand, he will exclaim: “Would that I had never been given my Record,

وَلَمْ أَدْرِ مَا حِسَابِيَهْ ۝٢٦

and had not known my account.

يَٰلَيْتَهَا كَانَتِ ٱلْقَاضِيَةَ ۝٢۷

Oh! Would that the death that came to me in the world had made an end of me!

مَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنِّى مَالِيَهْ ۜ ۝٢۸

My riches have not availed me,

هَلَكَ عَنِّى سُلْطَٰنِيَهْ ۝٢۹

and my authority has vanished.”

خُذُوهُ فَغُلُّوهُ ۝۳۰

(A command will be issued): “Seize him and shackle him,

ثُمَّ ٱلْجَحِيمَ صَلُّوهُ ۝۳١

then cast him in the Fire,

ثُمَّ فِى سِلْسِلَةٍۢ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعًۭا فَٱسْلُكُوهُ ۝۳٢

then fasten him with a chain, seventy cubits long.

إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ لَا يُؤْمِنُ بِٱللَّهِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ ۝۳۳

He would not believe in Allah, the Most Great;

وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ ۝۳٤

nor would he urge the feeding of the poor.

فَلَيْسَ لَهُ ٱلْيَوْمَ هَٰهُنَا حَمِيمٌۭ ۝۳٥

Today he has been left here friendless;

وَلَا طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ غِسْلِينٍۢ ۝۳٦

and has no food except the filth from the washing of wounds,

لَّا يَأْكُلُهُۥٓ إِلَّا ٱلْخَٰطِـُٔونَ ۝۳۷

which only the sinners will eat.”

فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِمَا تُبْصِرُونَ ۝۳۸

But no; I swear by what you see,

وَمَا لَا تُبْصِرُونَ ۝۳۹

and by what you do not see,

إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍۢ كَرِيمٍۢ ۝٤۰

that this is the speech of an honourable Messenger,

وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَاعِرٍۢ ۚ قَلِيلًۭا مَّا تُؤْمِنُونَ ۝٤١

not the speech of a poet. Little do you believe!

وَلَا بِقَوْلِ كَاهِنٍۢ ۚ قَلِيلًۭا مَّا تَذَكَّرُونَ ۝٤٢

Nor is this the speech of a soothsayer. Little do you reflect!

تَنزِيلٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ ۝٤۳

It has been revealed by the Lord of the Universe.

وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ ٱلْأَقَاوِيلِ ۝٤٤

And if he [i.e., the Prophets] had forged this Discourse and thereafter ascribed it to Us,

لَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِٱلْيَمِينِ ۝٤٥

We would surely have seized him by the right hand,

ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ ٱلْوَتِينَ ۝٤٦

and then severed his life vein;

فَمَا مِنكُم مِّنْ أَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَٰجِزِينَ ۝٤۷

and not one of you would have been able to withhold Us from doing so.

وَإِنَّهُۥ لَتَذْكِرَةٌۭ لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ ۝٤۸

Surely it is a Good Counsel for the God-fearing.

وَإِنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ أَنَّ مِنكُم مُّكَذِّبِينَ ۝٤۹

We certainly know that some among you will give the lie to it,

وَإِنَّهُۥ لَحَسْرَةٌ عَلَى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ ۝٥۰

and surely it will be a cause of regret for the unbelievers.

وَإِنَّهُۥ لَحَقُّ ٱلْيَقِينِ ۝٥١

Certainly it is a Truth of absolute certainty.

فَسَبِّحْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلْعَظِيمِ ۝٥٢

So glorify the name of your Lord Most Great.