Dawat ul Quran
Quran Translation and Commentary by Shams PirzadaTranslation in English by Abdul Karim Shaikh
Quran Translation
Word for Word by
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh
& Kausar Khatri
Introduction
1. Al-Fatihah
2. Al-Baqarah
3. Al-Imran
4. Al-Nisa
5. Al-Maidah
6. Al-Anam
7. Al-Araf
8. Al-Anfal
9. Al-Taubah
10. Yunus
11. Hud
12. Yusuf
13. Al-Rad
14. Ibrahim
15. Al-Hijr
16. Al-Nahl
17. Bani Israil
18. Al-Kahf
19. Maryam
20. Ta-Ha
21. Al-Anbiya
22. Al-Hajj
23. Al-Muminun
24. An-Nur
25. Al-Furqan
26. Ash-Shuara
27. An-Naml
28. Al-Qasas
29. Al-Ankabut
30. Ar-Rum
31. Luqman
32. As-Sajdah
33. Al-Ahzab
34. Saba
35. Fatir
36. Yasin
37. As-Saffat
38. Saad
39. Az-Zumar
40. Al-Mumin
41. Ha-Meem-As-Sajdah
42. AShura
43. Az-Zukhruf
44. Ad-Dukhan
45. Al-Jathiyah
46. Al-Ahqaf
47. Muhammad
48. Al-Fath
49. Al-Hujurat
50. Al-Qaf
51. Adh-Dhariyat
52. At-Tur
53. An-Najm
54. Al-Qamar
55. Al-Rahman
56. Al-Waqiah
57. Al-Hadid
58. Al-Mujadalah
59. Al-Hashr
60. Al-Mumtahinah
61. As-Saff
62. Al-Jumuah
63. Al-Munafiqun
64. Al-Taghabun
65. At-Talaq
66. At-Tahrim
67. Al-Mulk
68. Al-Qalam
69. Al-Haqqah
70. Al-Maarij
71. Nuh
72. Al-Jinn
73. Al-Muzzammil
74. Al-Muddhththir
75. Al-Qiyamah
76. Ad-Dahr
77. Al-Mursalat
78. An-Naba
79. An-Naziat
80. Abas
81. At-Takwir
82. Al-Infitar
83. At-Tatfif
84. Al-Inshiqaq
85. Al-Buruj
86. At-Tariq
87. Al-Ala
88. Al-Ghashiyah
89. Al-Fajr
90. Al-Balad
91. Ash-Shams
92. Al-Lail
93. Ad-Duha
94. Al-Inshirah
95. At-Tin
96. Al-Alaq
97. Al-Qadr
98. Al-Bayyinah
99. Az-Zilzal
100. Al-Adiyat
101. Al-Qariah
102. At-Takathur
103. Al-Asr
104. Al-Humazah
105. Al-Fil
106. Al-Quraish
107. Al-Maun
108. Al-Kauthar
109. Al-Kafirun
110. An-Nasr
111. Al-Lahab
112. Al-Ikhlas
113. Al-Falaq
114. An-Nas
69. Al-Haqqah بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ اَلْحَآقَّةُۙ The Inevitable Reality! مَا What الْحَآقَّةُۚ (is) the Inevitable Reality وَ مَاۤ And what اَدْرٰىكَ will make you know مَا what الْحَآقَّةُؕ (is) the Inevitable Reality كَذَّبَتْ Denied ثَمُوْدُ Thamud وَ عَادٌۢ and Aad بِالْقَارِعَةِ the Striking Calamity فَاَمَّا So as for ثَمُوْدُ Thamud فَاُهْلِكُوْا they were destroyed بِالطَّاغِیَةِ by the overpowering (blast) وَ اَمَّا And as for عَادٌ Aad فَاُهْلِكُوْا they were destroyed بِرِیْحٍ by a wind صَرْصَرٍ screaming عَاتِیَةٍۙ violent سَخَّرَهَا Which He imposed عَلَیْهِمْ upon them سَبْعَ (for) seven لَیَالٍ nights وَّ ثَمٰنِیَةَ and eight اَیَّامٍ ۙ days حُسُوْمًا ۙ (in) succession فَتَرَی so you would see الْقَوْمَ the people فِیْهَا therein صَرْعٰی ۙ fallen كَاَنَّهُمْ as if they were اَعْجَازُ trunks نَخْلٍ (of) date-palms خَاوِیَةٍۚ hollow فَهَلْ Then do تَرٰی you see لَهُمْ of them مِّنْۢ any بَاقِیَةٍ remains 69. Al-Haqqah Page 567 وَ جَآءَ And came فِرْعَوْنُ Firaun وَ مَنْ and (those) قَبْلَهٗ before him وَ الْمُؤْتَفِكٰتُ and the overturned cities بِالْخَاطِئَةِۚ with sin فَعَصَوْا And they disobeyed رَسُوْلَ (the) Messenger رَبِّهِمْ (of) their Lord فَاَخَذَهُمْ so He seized them اَخْذَةً (with) a seizure رَّابِیَةً exceeding اِنَّا Indeed We لَمَّا when طَغَا overflowed الْمَآءُ the water حَمَلْنٰكُمْ We carried you فِی in الْجَارِیَةِۙ the sailing (ship) لِنَجْعَلَهَا That We might make it لَكُمْ for you تَذْكِرَةً a reminder وَّ تَعِیَهَاۤ and would be conscious of it اُذُنٌ an ear وَّاعِیَةٌ conscious فَاِذَا Then when نُفِخَ is blown فِی in الصُّوْرِ the trumpet نَفْخَةٌ a blast وَّاحِدَةٌۙ single وَّ حُمِلَتِ And are lifted الْاَرْضُ the earth وَ الْجِبَالُ and the mountains فَدُكَّتَا and crushed دَكَّةً (with) a crushing وَّاحِدَةًۙ single فَیَوْمَىِٕذٍ Then (on) that Day وَّقَعَتِ will occur الْوَاقِعَةُۙ the Occurrence وَ انْشَقَّتِ And will split السَّمَآءُ the heaven فَهِیَ so it یَوْمَىِٕذٍ (is on) that Day وَّاهِیَةٌۙ frail وَّ الْمَلَكُ And the Angels عَلٰۤی (will be) on اَرْجَآىِٕهَا ؕ its edges وَ یَحْمِلُ and will bear عَرْشَ (the) Throne رَبِّكَ (of) your Lord فَوْقَهُمْ above them یَوْمَىِٕذٍ that Day ثَمٰنِیَةٌؕ eight یَوْمَىِٕذٍ That Day تُعْرَضُوْنَ you will be exhibited لَا not تَخْفٰی will be hidden مِنْكُمْ among you خَافِیَةٌ any secret فَاَمَّا Then as for مَنْ (him) who اُوْتِیَ is given كِتٰبَهٗ his record بِیَمِیْنِهٖ ۙ in his right hand فَیَقُوْلُ will say هَآؤُمُ Here اقْرَءُوْا read كِتٰبِیَهْۚ my record! اِنِّیْ Indeed I ظَنَنْتُ was certain اَنِّیْ that I مُلٰقٍ (will) meet حِسَابِیَهْۚ my account فَهُوَ So he فِیْ (will be) in عِیْشَةٍ a life رَّاضِیَةٍۙ pleasant فِیْ In جَنَّةٍ a Garden عَالِیَةٍۙ elevated قُطُوْفُهَا Its clusters of fruits دَانِیَةٌ hanging near كُلُوْا Eat وَ اشْرَبُوْا and drink هَنِیْٓـًٔۢا (in) satisfaction بِمَاۤ for what اَسْلَفْتُمْ you sent before you فِی in الْاَیَّامِ the days الْخَالِیَةِ past وَ اَمَّا But as for مَنْ (him) who اُوْتِیَ is given كِتٰبَهٗ his record بِشِمَالِهٖ ۙ۬ in his left hand فَیَقُوْلُ will say یٰلَیْتَنِیْ O! I wish لَمْ not اُوْتَ I had been given كِتٰبِیَهْۚ my record وَ لَمْ And not اَدْرِ I had known مَا what حِسَابِیَهْۚ (is) my account یٰلَیْتَهَا O! I wish it كَانَتِ had been الْقَاضِیَةَۚ the end مَاۤ Not اَغْنٰی has availed عَنِّیْ me مَالِیَهْۚ my wealth هَلَكَ Is gone عَنِّیْ from me سُلْطٰنِیَهْۚ my authority خُذُوْهُ Seize him فَغُلُّوْهُۙ and shackle him ثُمَّ Then الْجَحِیْمَ (into) the Hellfire صَلُّوْهُۙ burn him ثُمَّ Then فِیْ into سِلْسِلَةٍ a chain ذَرْعُهَا its length سَبْعُوْنَ (is) seventy ذِرَاعًا cubits فَاسْلُكُوْهُؕ insert him اِنَّهٗ Indeed, he كَانَ (did) لَا not یُؤْمِنُ believe بِاللّٰهِ in Allah الْعَظِیْمِۙ the Most Great وَ لَا And (did) not یَحُضُّ feel the urge عَلٰی on طَعَامِ (the) feeding الْمِسْكِیْنِؕ (of) the poor 69. Al-Haqqah Page 568 فَلَیْسَ So not لَهُ for him الْیَوْمَ today هٰهُنَا here حَمِیْمٌۙ any devoted friend وَّ لَا And not طَعَامٌ any food اِلَّا except مِنْ from غِسْلِیْنٍۙ (the) discharge of wounds لَّا Not یَاْكُلُهٗۤ will eat it اِلَّا except الْخَاطِـُٔوْنَ۠ the sinners
1. That which is bound to be true! 1
2. What is that which is bound to be true?
3. And what would you know what is that which is bound to be true ! 2
4. Thamood and Aad denied that clattering calamity. 3
5. So the Thamood were destroyed by a tremendous shriek. 4
6. And the Aad were destroyed by a severe roaring wind-storm. 5
7. Allah imposed it on them for seven nights and eight days to mow them down6 you might have seen them dumped as if they were the trunks of palm-trees uprooted.7
8. Can you see any of them remaining? 8
9. And Firaun and people before him9 and the overturned dwellings committed a serious crime.10
10. They disobeyed the Messenger of their LORD”11 Hence HE held them tightly.
11. WE loaded you on the ark when the flood crossed limit.12
12. So as to make the event a lesson for you13 and remembring ears may remember it.14
13. Then when a breath will be blown once into the trumpet.15
14. And the earth, along with the mountains, will be lifted up all at once and turned into dust. 16
15. That day what was to happen will happen. 17
16. And the sky will split asunder and it will be extremely feeble that day. 18
17. Angels will be on its borders 19 and eight angels will bear the Throne of your LORD that day above them.20
18. That Day you will be mustered 21 none of your affairs will remain secret.
19. So whosoever will be given his record in his right hand 22 will say: Ah here! Read my record. 23
20. I knew that I had to face my reckoning. 24
21. So he will be in a pleasing life.
22. In a high paradise.
23. Fruit clusters where of will be bent down 25
24. Eat and drink delightfully, as a reward for which you did in days past.
25. And whosoever will be given his record in his left hand 26 will say: Oh, would that my record were not given me.
26. And would that I knew nothing of my account.
27. Oh, would that very death of mine would have been decisive. 27
28. My wealth availed me not.
29. My power (strength and ruling potency) has ended. 28
30. Seize him and put fetter in his neck. 29
31. Then hurt him in the Hell.
32. Then with a chain seventy cubits long 30 fasten him.
33. He did not believe in Allah, the Great.31
34. Nor urged the feeding of the poor.32
35. So he has no friend here today.
36. Nor any food for him except pus. 33
37. Which only sinners will eat.
1. ‘Al Haaq’qah’ is one of the names of Qiyamat (Resurrection). It means that which is bound to be true, which is an inevitable event, a time when truth will come up quite clearly.
2. This style explains the importance of the point under discussion and it is that it will be a very extra-ordinary event. So be well aware.
3. Here a mention has been made by way of example of some of those communities who had falsified their prophets as a result of which divine wrath descended upon them. This is to make people take a lesson there from.
In this ayah Qiyamat has been called ‘Al Qariah’ (A severely shattering calamity).For explanation please see Surah ‘ Al Qariah’.
4. As it has been made clear elsewhere in the Quran the people of Thamood were annihilated by ‘Rajafah’ (shuddering) and ‘Saihah’ (terrible shriek). It seems the unusual thunder of clouds and extraordinary blazes of lightning had made them extremely restless so they tumbled down and died.
5. “Reeh Sarsar” means a cold and speedy wind. It seems the ruin of the people of Aad was caused by the storms of cold wind.
6. That is, that storm dashed them continuously for seven nights and eight days. On the eighth day they were ruined so totally that no trace of them could remain on earth.
7. The trunks of palm-trees are very strong. But when they are uprooted by storms their sight makes man wonder-struck and spellbound. Similar was the fate of Aad. They were very strong but devastating winds felled them in such a way that their corpses were scattered everywhere.
8. The deniers were annihilated so thoroughly that not one from them remained alive. Their progeny was thus ended.
9. There had been many rebellious communities who lived before Firaun too.
10. Means the habitations of the people of Loot who were turned upside down by earthquakes.
11. Not to obey the commands of the Messenger of God is a very big sin.
12. This refers to Noah’s event. When a huge flood was unleashed his community was drowned. But those who had believed were made to ride the ark with Noah and were saved. You are from his progeny. Hence saving them was like saving all of you. So this is a great Divine mercy upon all of you.
13. This event provides a lesson as to how severe is the punishment of rebelling against God and of disobeying His Messenger.
14. This event of human history is the most important event and a happening which is full of lessons. It is a memorable episode. But only those people will remember its lesson who have ears capable of hearing.
15. It means just one blow in the trumpet will cause Resurrection. Allah will not need any preparation to bring about Qiyamat. Just a blow here and everything in the universe will be topsy-turvy instantly. That blow will be like an alarm of Resurrection.
16. None should remain in an illusion that this earth with huge mountains thereon will remain forever. No, they will be reduced to dust at a single shaking of Qiyamat. It is quite easy for Almighty Allah to raise the mountains and to make them dust. And this destruction will be caused so that another earth which will be suitable for the grand gathering of Resurrection may come into existence.
17. That is, the Resurrection will have been established.
18. The sky is a very strong ceiling. But no sooner the trumpet of Resurrection is blown it will become frail. Qiyamat will be established not only on the earth but it will envelop skies also. All these destructions and devastations will be caused in order to bring forth a new universe as planned by the Almighty. But this destruction and demolition will be so catastrophic that its very thought sends a sensation through spines.
19. That is, the angels will concentrate on the borders of skies and there will be a sort of a huge tumult in the entire space between them.
20. This ayah is one of the ‘Mutashabihat’ (ambiguous) passages and to try to elucidate it would be like falling in entanglement. What is desired by the wording of the verse is to present an idea of the Divine Court of Justice which will be established on the Day of Resurrection when the LORD SOVEREIGN of the universe will issue HIS Decrees. What all of it will be like cannot be fully understood before Resurrection. For the explanation of ‘Mutashabihat’ please see Surah Aal-e-Imran Note: 13.
21. That is, all of you will be presented before Almighty Allah on that Day for the reckoning of your deeds.
22. For explanation please see Surah Waqiah, Note: 7.
23. He will be a good-doer and he will become delighted by getting his book of deeds in his right hand, as it is a sign of success. He will like to show it to others too. When a student passes his examination successfully he likes to show his result sheet to others. But the one who fails does not like to show his result sheet to others. Likewise, on the Day of Resurrection, only those people will like to show their Record of Deeds to others who will have been successful in, their worldly examination.
24. I was dead sure that I shall have to give an account of my deeds on the Day of Resurrection and therefore, I spent my life with that thought in my mind.
25. They will come so near that they can be plucked easily.
26. For explanation please see Surah Waqiah, Note: 8.
27. That it would have been better if my death would have destroyed me for ever so that I would not have to see this terrible Day. It can be imagined from this as to how despairing words will the deniers utter on the Day of Resurrection. God Almighty has warned all beforehand so that man may beware and so that he may not have to repent fruitlessly.
28. In this world man becomes proud with the intoxication of ruling power etc. But on the Day of Resurrection he will feel that he is all alone in the Field of Grand Gathering (Al-Hashr). Neither his armies are with him nor his government is in existence. All the ruling powers have been snatched away from him.
What a heart-shaking narration for kings and rulers ! Would it that they read attentively.
29. The denier would yet be uttering such despairing words when the Divine Decree will be issued ordering the angels to catch hold of him and to put fetters in his neck. This fetter will be the punishment for his false pride. Thereafter he will be ordered to be hurled in Hell as has been mentioned hereafter.
30. In his worldly life he had become a slave of his desires and the chain of his wishes was very long. Therefore he will be fastened with a seventy cubits long chain. Thus the punishment will be proportionate to his sins.
31. That is, just see his audacity. He did not recognize Allah’s Majesty and refused to believe in Him. It is no ordinary crime. It is a very serious offence as it is an open rebellion against the Almighty.
32. When man becomes careless about his Lord, he loses all interest in the deeds liked by the Almighty. One of such deeds is feeding the poor and to urge others to do so. Not doing so is a very big offence in the words of the Quran as it is an extremely unsympathetic attitude toward fellow human beings. The poor has a right in whatever is granted by Allah to the wealthy.
33. For drinking, a dirty thing like pus will be given to the people of the Hell. It will be so because the thoughts and deeds of the offender were also very dirty.