{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq069.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq069.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq069.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. The Sure Reality!\n2. What is the Sure Reality?\n3. And what will make\n Thee realise what\n The Sure Reality is?\n4. The Tham\u016bd\n And the \u2018\u0100d people\n (Branded) as false\n The Stunning Calamity!\n5. But the Tham\u016bd,\u2014\n They were destroyed\n By a terrible Storm\n Of thunder and lightning!\n6. And the \u2018\u0100d,\u2014\n They were destroyed\n By a furious Wind,\n Exceedingly violent;\n7. He made it rage\n Against them seven nights\n And eight days in succession:\n So that thou couldst see\n The (whole) people lying\n Prostrate in its (path),\n As if they had been\n Roots of hollow palm-trees\n Tumbled down!\n8. Then seest thou any\n Of them left surviving?\n9. And Pharaoh,\n And those before him,\n And the Cities Overthrown,\n Committed habitual Sin,\n10. And disobeyed (each)\n The apostle of their Lord;\n So He punished them\n With an abundant Penalty.\n11. We, when the water\n (Of Noah's Flood) overflowed\n Beyond its limits,\n Carried you (mankind),\n In the floating (Ark),\n12. That We might\n Make it a Message\n Unto you, and that ears\n (That should hear the tale\n And) retain its memory\n Should bear its (lessons)\n In remembrance.\n13. Then, when one\n Blast is sounded\n On the Trumpet,\n14. And the earth is moved,\n And its mountains,\n And they are crushed to powder\n At one stroke,\u2014\n15. On that Day\n Shall the (Great) Event\n Come to pass,\n16. And the sky will be\n Rent asunder, for it will\n That Day be flimsy,\n17. And the angels will be\n On its sides,\nAnd eight will, that Day,\n Bear the Throne\n Of thy Lord above them.\n18. That Day shall ye be\n Brought to Judgment:\n Not an act of yours\n That ye hide will be hidden.\n19. Then he that will be\n Given his Record\n In his right hand\n Will say: \"Ah here!\n Read ye my Record!\n20. \"I did really understand\n That my Account would\n (One Day) reach me!\"\n21. And he will be\n In a life of Bliss,\n22. In a Garden on high,\n23. The Fruits whereof\n (Will hang in bunches)\n Low and near.\n24. \"Eat ye and drink ye,\n With full satisfaction;\nBecause of the (good)\n That ye sent before you,\n In the days that are gone!\"\n25. And he that will\n Be given his Record\n In his left hand,\n Will say: \"Ah! would\n That my record had not\n Been given to me!\n26. \"And that I had never\n Realised how\n My account (stood)!\n27. \"Ah! would that (Death)\n Had made an end of me!\n28. \"Of no profit to me\n Has been my wealth!\n29. \"My power has\n Perished from me!\"\u2026\n30. (The stern command will say):\n \"Seize ye him,\n And bind ye him,\n31. \"And burn ye him\n In the Blazing Fire.\n32. \"Further, make him march\n In a chain, whereof\n The length is seventy cubits!\n33. \"This was he that\n Would not believe\n In God Most High,\n34. \"And would not encourage\n The feeding of the indigent!\n35. \"So no friend hath he\n Here this Day.\n36. \"Nor hath he any food\n Except the corruption\n From the washing of wounds,\n37. \"Which none do eat\n But those in sin.\"\n38. So I do\n Call to witness\n What ye see\n39. And what ye see not,\n40. That this is\n Verily the word\n Of an honoured apostle;\n41. It is not the word\n Of a poet:\n Little it is\n Ye believe!\n42. Nor is it the word\n Of a soothsayer:\n Little admonition it is\n Ye receive.\n43. (This is) a Message\n Sent down from the Lord\n Of the Worlds.\n44. And if the apostle\n Were to invent\n Any sayings in Our name,\n45. We should certainly seize him\n By his right hand,\n46. And We should certainly\n Then cut off the artery\n Of his heart:\n47. Nor could any of you\n Withhold him\n (From Our wrath).\n48. But verily this\n Is a Message for\n The God-fearing.\n49. And We certainly know\n That there are amongst you\n Those that reject (it).\n50. But truly (Revelation)\n Is a cause of sorrow\n For the Unbelievers.\n51. But verily it is Truth\n Of assured certainty.\n52. So glorify the name\n Of thy Lord Most High.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LXIX. \u1e24\u0101qqa, or the ...","type":"page"}