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ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ
al-haqatu
The Inevitable Reality
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The Inevitable Hour
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The Inevitable Hour
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What is the Inevitable Hour
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What will explain to you what the Inevitable Hour is
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The people of Thamud and 'Ad denied that the crashing blowwould come
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Thamud was destroyed by a deafening blast
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Ad was destroyed by a furious wind
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that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks
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Can you see any trace of them now
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Pharaoh, too, and those before him, and the ruined cities: these people committed grave sins
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and disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with an ever-tightening grip
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But when the Flood rose high, We saved you in the floating ship
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making that event a reminder for you: attentive ears may take heed
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When the Trumpet is sounded a single time
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when the earth and its mountains are raised high and then crushed with a single blow
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on that Day the Great Event will come to pass
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The sky will be torn apart on that Day, it will be so frail
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The angels will be on all sides of it and, on that Day, eight of them will bear the throne of your Lord above them
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On that Day you will be brought to judgement and none of your secrets will remain hidden
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Anyone who is given his Record in his right hand will say, ‘Here is my Record, read it
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I knew I would meet my Reckoning,’
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and so he will have a pleasant life
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in a lofty Garden
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with clustered fruit within his reach
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It will be said, ‘Eat and drink to your heart’s content as a reward for what you have done in days gone by.’
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But anyone who is given his Record in his left hand will say, ‘If only I had never been given any Record
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