69.Surah Al Haqqah
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
فَإِذَا
نُفِخَ فِي
الصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌ
وَاحِدَةٌ ﴿١٣﴾
69: 13. Then, when one Blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
C5648. We now come to the Inevitable Event, the Day of Judgment, the theme of this Surah. This is the first Blast referred to in 39:68, n. 4343.
وَحُمِلَتِ
الْأَرْضُ
وَالْجِبَالُ ...
69: 14. And the earth is moved, and its mountains,
C5649. The whole of our visible world, as we now know it, will pass away, and a new world will come into being. The mountains are specially mentioned, because they stand as the type of hardness, size, and durability. They will be "crushed", i.e., lose their form and being at one stroke.
... فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَاحِدَةً ﴿١٤﴾
and they are crushed to powder at one stroke --
فَيَوْمَئِذٍ
وَقَعَتِ
الْوَاقِعَةُ ﴿١٥﴾
69: 15. On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass,
وَانشَقَّتِ
السَّمَاء
فَهِيَ يَوْمَئِذٍ
وَاهِيَةٌ ﴿١٦﴾
69: 16. And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
وَالْمَلَكُ
عَلَى أَرْجَائِهَا ...
69: 17. And the angels will be on its sides,
C5650. The whole picture is painted in graphic poetical images, to indicate that which cannot be adequately described in words, and which indeed our human faculties with their present limited powers are not ready to comprehend.
The angels will be on all sides, arrayed in ranks upon ranks, and the Throne of the Lord on high will be borne by eight angels (or eight rows of angels). That will be the Day when Justice will be fully established and man be mustered to his Lord for reckoning. (R).
... وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَانِيَةٌ ﴿١٧﴾
and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
C5651. The number eight has perhaps no special significance, unless it be with reference to the shape of the Throne or the number of the angels.
The Oriental Throne is often octagonal, and its bearers would be one at each corner. (R).
يَوْمَئِذٍ
تُعْرَضُونَ
لَا تَخْفَى
مِنكُمْ خَافِيَةٌ ﴿١٨﴾
69: 18. That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
فَأَمَّا
مَنْ أُوتِيَ
كِتَابَهُ
بِيَمِينِهِ ...
69: 19. Then He that will be given his Record in his right hand ...
C5652. Cf. 17:71, where the righteous are described as those who are given their record in their right hand at Judgment.
In 56:27, 56:38, and other passages, the righteous are called "Companions of the Right Hand".
... فَيَقُولُ هَاؤُمُ اقْرَؤُوا كِتَابِيهْ ﴿١٩﴾
.. will say: "Ah here! read ye my Record!
إِنِّي
ظَنَنتُ أَنِّي
مُلَاقٍ حِسَابِيهْ ﴿٢٠﴾
69: 20. "I did really understand that my Account would (one Day) reach me!"
C5653. The righteous one rejoices that the faith he had during this world's life was fully justified, and is now actually realized before him. He quite understood and believed that good and evil must meet with their due consequences in the Hereafter, however much appearances may have been against it in the life in the lower world, "in the days that are gone".
فَهُوَ
فِي عِيشَةٍ
رَّاضِيَةٍ ﴿٢١﴾
69: 21. And he will be in a life of Bliss,
Asad’s Version:
69:13 Hence, [bethink yourselves of the Last Hour,] when the trumpet [of judgment] shall be sounded with a single blast,
(69:14) and the earth and the mountains shall be lifted up and crushed with a single stroke!
(69:15) And so, that which must come to pass 8 will on that day
have come to pass;
(69: 16) and the sky will be rent asunder 9 - for, frail will it have become on
that Day - ;
(69:17) and the angels [will appear] at its ends, 10 and, above them, eight will bear aloft on that Day the throne of thy Sustainer's almightiness.... 11
69:18 On that Day you shall be brought to judgment: not [even] the most hidden of your deeds will remain hidden.
(69:19) Now as for him whose record shall be placed in his right hand, 12 he will exclaim: "Come you all!" Read this my record!
(69:20) Behold, I did know that [one day] I would have to face my account! 13
69:21 And so he will find himself in a happy state of life, (22) in a lofty paradise, (23) with its fruits within easy reach.