The Inevitable Hour (Al-Haqqah)
Verses 1-12 GROUP_1514 69.1-12
1
الْحَاقَّةُ
The Inevitable Hour!
2
مَا الْحَاقَّةُ
What is the Inevitable Hour?
3
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْحَاقَّةُ
And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?
4
كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌ بِالْقَارِعَةِ
The tribes of Thamud and ‘Ad denied that disaster would strike them:
5
فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا بِالطَّاغِيَةِ
the Thamud were destroyed by a terrible storm of thunder and lightning;
6
وَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَأُهْلِكُوا بِرِيحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍ
and the ‘Ad were destroyed by a furious wind
7
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَى كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ
which God let loose against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you could have seen its people lying prostrate as though they were the hollow trunks of palm-trees which had fallen down.
8
فَهَلْ تَرَى لَهُم مِّن بَاقِيَةٍ
Do you see any vestige left of them now?
9
وَجَاء فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَن قَبْلَهُ وَالْمُؤْتَفِكَاتُ بِالْخَاطِئَةِ
Pharoah and those before him and the inhabitants of the overthrown cities persistently committed grave sins.
10
فَعَصَوْا رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمْ أَخْذَةً رَّابِيَةً
They defied their Lord’s messenger, so He seized them with an ever-tightening grip.
11
إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاء حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ
But We bore you away in the Ark, when the waters rose high,
12
لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَا أُذُنٌ وَاعِيَةٌ
so that We might make it a reminder for you and so that attentive ears might retain it.
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Commentary
(a) Some deny the Hereafter openly, while there are others who may not explicitly deny the Hereafter, but who in their heart of hearts attach importance solely to worldly affairs. That is why there is no difference between the way of life of these people and that of those who make open denials. In essence, these two groups are the same. In the eyes of God, both of them are rejecters of the Hereafter—one group rejecting it by word of mouth and the other doing so in practice. In accordance with the law of God, all such people are going to face destruction. In the days of the prophets, this destruction was made manifest in the present world, as for their successors it will become a reality in the Hereafter.