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This is a translation of Surah Al-Haqqah (Chapter 69) from the Quran, one of the shorter Meccan suras revealed early in Muhammad's prophethood. The chapter centers on the Day of Judgment ("the Infallible" or "the Inevitable"), describing it as an inescapable cosmic event when the earth and heavens are destroyed and all people face divine reckoning. It grounds this warning in historical precedent, recounting how past peoples — Thamud, Ad, Pharaoh — were destroyed for rejecting God's messengers, positioning these as evidence of divine justice. The sura's most vivid content contrasts the fates of the righteous, who receive their record of deeds in the right hand and enter paradise, with the damned, who receive it in the left and are chained and cast into hell. Distinctively, the chapter closes with a direct defense of the Quran's own authenticity, arguing it is neither poetry nor soothsaying but genuine divine revelation, and warning that God would have killed Muhammad himself had he fabricated it — an unusual meta-textual claim about the text's own origins and authority.

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