The Qur'an Sura LXIX — THE INEVITABLE
1The INEVITABLE!
2And who shall make thee comprehend what the Inevitable is?
3Themoud and Ad treated the day of Terrors as a lie.
4So as to Themoud, they were destroyed by crashing thunder bolts;
5And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring and furious blast.
6It did the bidding of God against them seven nights and eight days together, during which thou mightest have seen the people laid low, as though they had been the trunks of hollow palms;
7And couldst thou have seen one of them surviving?
8Pharaoh also, and those who flourished before him, and the overthrown cities, committed sin,–
9And disobeyed the Sent one of their Lord; therefore did he chastise them with an accumulated chastisement.
10When the Flood rose high, we bare you in the Ark,
11That we might make that event a warning to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.
12But when one blast shall be blown on the trumpet,
13And the earth and the mountains shall be upheaved, and shall both be crushed into dust at a single crushing,
14On that day the woe that must come suddenly shall suddenly come,
15And the heaven shall cleave asunder, for on that day it shall be fragile;
16And the angels shall be on its sides, and over them on that day eight shall bear up the throne of thy Lord.
17On that day ye shall be brought before Him: none of your hidden deeds shall remain hidden:
18And he who shall have his book given to him in his right hand, will say to his friends, "Take ye it; read ye my book;
19I ever thought that to this my reckoning I should come."
20And his shall be a life that shall please him well,
21In a lofty garden,
22Whose clusters shall be near at hand:
23"Eat ye and drink with healthy relish, as the meed of what ye sent on beforehand in the days which are past."
24But he who shall have his book given into his left hand, will say, "O that my book had never been given me!
25And that I had never known my reckoning!
26O that death had made an end of me!
27My wealth hath not profited me!
28My power hath perished from me!"
29"Lay ye hold on him and chain him,
30Then at the Hell-fire burn him,
31Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits thrust him;
32For he believed not in God, the Great,
33And was not careful to feed the poor;
34No friend therefore shall he have here this day,
35Nor food, but corrupt sores,
36Which none shall eat but the sinners."
37It needs not that I swear by what ye see,
38And by that which ye see not,
39That this verily is the word of an apostle worthy of all honour!
40And that it is not the word of a poet–how little do ye believe!
41Neither is it the word of a soothsayer (Kahin)–how little do ye receive warning!
42It is a missive from the Lord of the worlds.
43But if Muhammad had fabricated concerning us any sayings,
44We had surely seized him by the right hand,
45And had cut through the vein of his neck.
46Nor would We have withheld any one of you from him.
47But, verily, It (the Koran) is a warning for the God-fearing;
48And we well know that there are of you who treat it as a falsehood.
49But it shall be the despair of infidels,
50For it is the very truth of sure knowledge.
51Praise, then, the name of thy Lord, the Great.
Suras are in the standard order; verse divisions follow Rodwell's 1861 edition and do not always match the standard ayah numbering.