1The INEVITABLE!

3And who shall make thee comprehend what the Inevitable is?

4Themoud and Ad treated the day of Terrors as a lie.

5So as to Themoud, they were destroyed by crashing thunder bolts.

6And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring and furious blast.

7It did the bidding of God against them seven nights and eight days together, during which thou mightest have seen the people laid low, as though they had been the trunks of hollow palms.

8And couldst thou have seen one of them surviving?

9Pharaoh also, and those who flourished before him, and the overthrown cities, committed sin,–

10And disobeyed the Sent one of their Lord; therefore did he chastise them with an accumulated chastisement.

11When the Flood rose high, we bare you in the Ark.

12That we might make that event a warning to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.

13But when one blast shall be blown on the trumpet.

14And the earth and the mountains shall be upheaved, and shall both be crushed into dust at a single crushing.

15On that day the woe that must come suddenly shall suddenly come.

16And the heaven shall cleave asunder, for on that day it shall be fragile.

17And the angels shall be on its sides, and over them on that day eight shall bear up the throne of thy Lord.

18On that day ye shall be brought before Him: none of your hidden deeds shall remain hidden.

19And he who shall have his book given to him in his right hand, will say to his friends, "Take ye it; read ye my book.

20I ever thought that to this my reckoning I should come."

21And his shall be a life that shall please him well.

22In a lofty garden.

23Whose clusters shall be near at hand.

24"Eat ye and drink with healthy relish, as the meed of what ye sent on beforehand in the days which are past."

25But he who shall have his book given into his left hand, will say, "O that my book had never been given me!

26And that I had never known my reckoning!

27O that death had made an end of me!

28My wealth hath not profited me!

29My power hath perished from me!"

30"Lay ye hold on him and chain him.

31Then at the Hell-fire burn him.

32Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits thrust him.

33For he believed not in God, the Great.

34And was not careful to feed the poor.

35No friend therefore shall he have here this day.

36Nor food, but corrupt sores.

37Which none shall eat but the sinners."

38It needs not that I swear by what ye see.

39And by that which ye see not.

40That this verily is the word of an apostle worthy of all honour!

41And that it is not the word of a poet–how little do ye believe!

42Neither is it the word of a soothsayer (Kahin)–how little do ye receive warning!

43It is a missive from the Lord of the worlds.

44But if Muhammad had fabricated concerning us any sayings.

45We had surely seized him by the right hand.

46And had cut through the vein of his neck.

47Nor would We have withheld any one of you from him.

48But, verily, It (the Koran) is a warning for the God-fearing.

49And we well know that there are of you who treat it as a falsehood.

50But it shall be the despair of infidels.

51For it is the very truth of sure knowledge.

52Praise, then, the name of thy Lord, the Great.