1 The sure Truth! |
2 What is the sure Truth? |
3 And what would make thee realize what the sure Truth is? |
4 Thamūd and ‘Ād called the calamity a lie. |
5 Then as for Thamūd, they were destroyed by the severe punishment. |
6 And as for ‘Ād, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent wind, |
7 Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days continuously, so that thou mightest have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were trunks of hollow palmtrees. |
8 So canst thou see a remnant of them? |
9 And Pharaoh and those before him and the overthrown cities wrought evil. |
10 And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment. |
11 Surely We carried you in the ship, when the water rose high, |
12 That We might make it a reminder for you, and that the retaining ear might retain it. |
13 So when the trumpet is blown with a single blast, |
14 And the earth and the mountains are borne away and crushed with one crash — |
15 On that day will the Event come to pass, |
16 And the heaven will be cleft asunder; so that day it will be frail, |
17 And the angels will be on its sides. And above them eight will bear that day thy Lord’s Throne of Power. |
18 On that day you will be exposed to view — no secret of yours will remain hidden. |