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69. THE INEVITABLE HOUR
(AL-HAQQAH)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
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1 The Inevitable Hour! What is might make it a reminder for you
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the Inevitable Hour? And what and so that attentive ears might
will make you realize what the retain it.
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Inevitable Hour is? The tribes 13 When a single blast is blown
of Thamud and ‘Ad denied that on the trumpet, 14 and the earth
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disaster would strike them: the and the mountains are lifted up
Thamud were destroyed by a and then crushed with a single
terrible storm of thunder and blow, 15 on that Day the Great
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lightning; 6 and the ‘Ad were Event will come to pass. And
destroyed by a furious wind the sky will be rent asunder, for
7 which God let loose against on that Day it will be so frail.
them for seven nights and eight 17 The angels will appear by its
days unremittingly, so that you sides and, on that Day, eight
could have seen its people lying [angels] will bear your Lord’s
prostrate as though they were the throne above them. 18 On that
hollow trunks of palm-trees Day you will be brought to
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which had fallen down. Do you judgement and none of your
see any vestige left of them secrets will remain hidden. a
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now? Pharoah and those before a The present world has been made
him and the inhabitants of the with a view to putting human beings
overthrown cities persistently to the test. When the period of testing
committed grave sins. 10 They is over, this world will be demolished
defied their Lord’s messenger, and a new world fashioned to meet
new requirements will be made. The
so He seized them with an ever- majesty of God at present reveals
tightening grip. 11 But We bore itself indirectly, but at that time the
you away in the Ark, when the Majesty of God will be directly
waters rose high, 12 so that We manifested.