SURAH AL-HAQQAH (THE SURE CALAMITY)

This surah was revealed in Mecca and it has 52 verses. Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) has advised that this surah should be recited often in prayers as this is a sign of faith. This surah has praises for Imam Ali (a.s.) and insults for Mu’awiya ibn Aba Sufyan.

The Holy Prophet (S) has said that reciting this surah makes the accounting of deeds on the Day of Reckoning easier. If this surah is worn as a taweez by a pregnant woman, then her baby will be safe. Giving water in which this surah has been dissolved to a child will make his memory and intellect improve. Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (a.s.) said that the one who recites this surah will never loose his religion.

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

اَلْحَآقَّةُ ۙ‏(1)

(1) The sure calamity!

مَا الْحَآقَّةُ‌ ۚ‏(2)

(2) What is the sure calamity!

وَمَاۤ اَدْرٰٮكَ مَا الْحَآقَّةُ ؕ‏(3)

(3) And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُوْدُ وَعَادٌۢ بِالْقَارِعَةِ‏(4)

(4) Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie.

فَاَمَّا ثَمُوْدُ فَاُهْلِكُوْا بِالطَّاغِيَةِ‏(5)

(5) Then as to Samood, they were destroyed by an excessively severe punishment.

وَاَمَّا عَادٌ فَاُهْلِكُوْا بِرِيْحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍۙ‏(6)

(6) And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent blast.

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَّثَمٰنِيَةَ اَيَّامٍۙ حُسُوْمًا ۙ فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيْهَا صَرْعٰىۙ كَاَنَّهُمْ اَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ‌ ۚ‏(7)

(7) Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms.

فَهَلْ تَرٰى لَهُمْ مِّنْۢ بَاقِيَةٍ‏(8)

(8) Do you then see of them one remaining?

وَجَآءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَنْ قَبْلَهٗ وَالْمُؤْتَفِكٰتُ بِالْخَاطِئَةِ‌ۚ‏(9)

(9) And Firon and those before him and the overthrown cities continuously committed sins.

فَعَصَوْا رَسُوْلَ رَبِّهِمْ فَاَخَذَهُمْ اَخْذَةً رَّابِيَةً‏(10)

(10) And they disobeyed the Apostle of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment.

اِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا الْمَآءُ حَمَلْنٰكُمْ فِى الْجَارِيَةِ ۙ‏(11)

(11) Surely We bore you up in the ship when the water rose high,

لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَّتَعِيَهَاۤ اُذُنٌ وَّاعِيَةٌ‏(12)

(12) So that We may make it a reminder to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.

فَاِذَا نُفِخَ فِى الصُّوْرِ نَفْخَةٌ وَّاحِدَةٌ ۙ‏(13)

(13) And when the trumpet is blown with a single blast,

وَحُمِلَتِ الْاَرْضُ وَ الْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَّاحِدَةً ۙ‏(14)

(14) And the earth and the mountains are borne away and crushed with a single crushing.

فَيَوْمَئِذٍ وَّقَعَتِ الْوَاقِعَةُ ۙ‏(15)

(15) On that day shall the great event come to pass,

وَانْشَقَّتِ السَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَّاهِيَةٌ ۙ‏(16)

(16) And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that day it shall be frail,

وَّالْمَلَكُ عَلٰٓى اَرْجَآئِهَا ‌ؕ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمٰنِيَةٌ ؕ‏(17)

(17) And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and above them eight shall bear on that day your Lord's power.

يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُوْنَ لَا تَخْفٰى مِنْكُمْ خَافِيَةٌ‏(18)

(18) On that day you shall be exposed to view-- no secret of yours shall remain hidden.

فَاَمَّا مَنْ اُوْتِىَ كِتٰبَهٗ بِيَمِيْنِهٖۙ فَيَقُوْلُ هَآؤُمُ اقْرَءُوْا كِتٰبِيَهْ‌ۚ‏(19)

(19) Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say: Lo! read my book:

اِنِّىْ ظَنَنْتُ اَنِّىْ مُلٰقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ‌ۚ‏(20)

(20) Surely I knew that I shall meet my account.

فَهُوَ فِىْ عِيْشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍۙ‏(21)

(21) So he shall be in a life of pleasure,

فِىْ جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍۙ‏(22)

(22) In a lofty garden,

قُطُوْفُهَا دَانِيَةٌ‏(23)

(23) The fruits of which are near at hand:

كُلُوْا وَاشْرَبُوْا هَنِيْٓئًا ۢ بِمَاۤ اَسْلَفْتُمْ فِى الْاَيَّامِ الْخَالِيَةِ‏(24)

(24) Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by.

وَاَمَّا مَنْ اُوْتِىَ كِتٰبَهٗ بِشِمَالِهٖ ۙ فَيَقُوْلُ يٰلَيْتَنِىْ لَمْ اُوْتَ كِتٰبِيَهْ‌ۚ‏(25)

(25) And as for him who is given his book in his left hand he shall say: O would that my book had never been given me:

وَلَمْ اَدْرِ مَا حِسَابِيَهْ‌ۚ‏(26)

(26) And I had not known what my account was:

يٰلَيْتَهَا كَانَتِ الْقَاضِيَةَ‌ ۚ‏(27)

(27) O would that it had made an end (of me):

مَاۤ اَغْنٰى عَنِّىْ مَالِيَهْۚ‏(28)

(28) My wealth has availed me nothing:

هَلَكَ عَنِّىْ سُلْطٰنِيَهْ‌ۚ‏(29)

(29) My authority is gone away from me.

خُذُوْهُ فَغُلُّوْهُ ۙ‏(30)

(30) Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,

ثُمَّ الْجَحِيْمَ صَلُّوْهُ ۙ‏(31)

(31) Then cast him into the burning fire,

ثُمَّ فِىْ سِلْسِلَةٍ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُوْنَ ذِرَاعًا فَاسْلُكُوْهُ ؕ‏(32)

(32) Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.

اِنَّهٗ كَانَ لَا يُؤْمِنُ بِاللّٰهِ الْعَظِيْمِۙ‏(33)

(33) Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,

وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلٰى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِيْنِؕ‏(34)

(34) Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.

فَلَيْسَ لَهُ الْيَوْمَ هٰهُنَا حَمِيْمٌۙ‏(35)

(35) Therefore he has not here today a true friend,

وَّلَا طَعَامٌ اِلَّا مِنْ غِسْلِيْنٍۙ‏(36)

(36) Nor any food except refuse,

لَّا يَاْكُلُهٗۤ اِلَّا الْخٰطِئُوْنَ‏(37)

(37) Which none but the wrongdoers eat.

فَلَاۤ اُقْسِمُ بِمَا تُبْصِرُوْنَۙ‏(38)

(38) But nay! I swear by that which you see,

وَمَا لَا تُبْصِرُوْنَۙ‏(39)

(39) And that which you do not see.

اِنَّهٗ لَقَوْلُ رَسُوْلٍ كَرِيْمٍۚ ۙ‏(40)

(40) Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honored Apostle,

وَّمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَاعِرٍ‌ؕ قَلِيْلًا مَّا تُؤْمِنُوْنَۙ‏(41)

(41) And it is not the word of a poet; little is it that you believe;

وَلَا بِقَوْلِ كَاهِنٍ‌ؕ قَلِيْلًا مَّا تَذَكَّرُوْنَؕ‏(42)

(42) Nor the word of a soothsayer; little is it that you mind.

تَنْزِيْلٌ مِّنْ رَّبِّ الْعٰلَمِيْنَ‏(43)

(43) It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.

وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ الْاَقَاوِيْلِۙ‏(44)

(44) And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings,

لَاَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِيْنِۙ‏(45)

(45) We would certainly have seized him by the right hand,

ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ الْوَتِيْنَ ۖ‏(46)

(46) Then We would certainly have cut off his aorta.

فَمَا مِنْكُمْ مِّنْ اَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَاجِزِيْنَ‏(47)

(47) And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.

وَاِنَّهٗ لَتَذْكِرَةٌ لِّلْمُتَّقِيْنَ‏(48)

(48) And most surely it is a reminder for those who guard (against evil).

وَاِنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ اَنَّ مِنْكُمْ مُّكَذِّبِيْنَ‏(49)

(49) And most surely We know that some of you are rejecters.

وَاِنَّهٗ لَحَسْرَةٌ عَلَى الْكٰفِرِيْنَ‏(50)

(50) And most surely it is a great grief to the unbelievers.

وَاِنَّهٗ لَحَقُّ الْيَقِيْنِ‏(51)

(51) And most surely it is the true certainty

فَسَبِّحْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الْعَظِيْمِ‏(52)

(52) Therefore-glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.