Al-Haqqah

The Inevitable Reality! What is it? Thamud and ‘Ad denied it. Thamud were destroyed by an overpowering blast, and ‘Ad by a screaming, violent wind that Allah set upon them for seven nights and eight days, leaving them fallen like hollow trunks of palm trees. Pharaoh, those before him and the overturned towns of Lut’s people disobeyed their messengers too, and Allah seized them. When the flood rose, He carried the believers in Nuh’s Ark, as a reminder for listening ears. Then the Trumpet will be blown with one blast, the earth and mountains crushed, the sky split open, and eight will carry the Throne of your Lord. Everyone will be brought forward with nothing hidden. The one given his record in his right hand will say, “Here, read my record!” and live a pleasing life in a lofty Garden with fruit hanging low. The one given his record in his left hand will wish he had never seen it: his wealth and power are gone, and he is chained in the Fire, because he did not believe in Allah, the Most Great, nor urge the feeding of the poor. Allah swears by what we see and what we do not see that the Quran is the word of a noble Messenger, not of a poet or a fortune-teller, but a revelation from the Lord of all the worlds. Had the Prophet ﷺ invented anything in Allah’s name, Allah would have seized him. It is a reminder for the mindful and the certain truth, so glorify the name of your Lord, the Most Great.