1. The Sure Reality!
2. What is the Sure Reality?
3. And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
4. Kaththabat thamoodu waAAadun bialqariAAati
4. The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
5. Faamma thamoodu faohlikoo bialttaghiyati
5. But the Thamud,- they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
6. Waamma AAadun faohlikoo bireehin sarsarin AAatiyatin
6. And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
7. Sakhkharaha AAalayhim sabAAa layalin wathamaniyata ayyamin husooman fatara alqawma feeha sarAAa kaannahum aAAjazu nakhlin khawiyatun
7. He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!
8. Fahal tara lahum min baqiyatin
8. Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
9. Wajaa firAAawnu waman qablahu waalmu/tafikatu bialkhati-ati
9. And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
10. FaAAasaw rasoola rabbihim faakhathahum akhthatan rabiyatan
10. And disobeyed (each) the apostle of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
11. Inna lamma tagha almao hamalnakum fee aljariyati
11. We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
12. LinajAAalaha lakum tathkiratan wataAAiyaha othunun waAAiyatun
12. That We might make it a Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.
13. Fa-itha nufikha fee alssoori nafkhatun wahidatun
13. Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
14. Wahumilati al-ardu waaljibalu fadukkata dakkatan wahidatan
14. And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke,-
15. Fayawma-ithin waqaAAati alwaqiAAatu
15. On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
16. Wainshaqqati alssamao fahiya yawma-ithin wahiyatun
16. And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
17. Waalmalaku AAala arja-iha wayahmilu AAarsha rabbika fawqahum yawma-ithin thamaniyatun
17. And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
18. Yawma-ithin tuAAradoona la takhfa minkum khafiyatun
18. That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
19. Faamma man ootiya kitabahu biyameenihi fayaqoolu haomu iqraoo kitabiyah
19. Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!
20. Innee thanantu annee mulaqin hisabiyah
20. "I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
21. Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
21. And he will be in a life of Bliss,
22. In a Garden on high,
23. The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
24. Kuloo waishraboo hanee-an bima aslaftum fee al-ayyami alkhaliyati
24. "Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
25. Waamma man ootiya kitabahu bishimalihi fayaqoolu ya laytanee lam oota kitabiyah
25. And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!
26. "And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
27. Ya laytaha kanati alqadiyatu
27. "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
28. "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
29. "My power has perished from me!"...
30. (The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
31. "And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
32. Thumma fee silsilatin tharAAuha sabAAoona thiraAAan faoslukoohu
32. "Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
33. Innahu kana la yu/minu biAllahi alAAatheemi
33. "This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
34. Wala yahuddu AAala taAAami almiskeeni
34. "And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
35. Falaysa lahu alyawma hahuna hameemun
35. "So no friend hath he here this Day.
36. Wala taAAamun illa min ghisleenin
36. "Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
37. La ya/kuluhu illa alkhati-oona
37. "Which none do eat but those in sin."