The Inevitable Calamity
What is the Inevitable Calamity
And what shall make thee know that which the Inevitable Calamity is
The tribes of Thamud and 'Aad belied the Striking Day
As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the outburst
And as for 'Aad they were destroyed by a wind, furious. roaring
To which He subjected them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so that thou mightest have seen men during it lying prostrate, as though they were stumps of palms ruined
Beholdest thou any of them remaining
And Fir'awn and those before him and the overturned cities committed sin
And they disobeyed their Lord's apostle, so He laid hold of them with a grip increasing
Verily We! when the water rose, We bare you upon the traversing ark
That We might make it Unto you an admonition, and thot it might be retained by the retaining ears
And when the Trumpet shall sound a single blast
And the earth and the mountains shall be borne and the twain shall be crushed with a single crash
Then on that Day shall happen the Event
And the heaven shall be rent in sunder, it on that Day shall be frail
And the angels shall be on the borders thereof; and on that Day eight shall bear over them the Throne of thy Lord
The Day whereon ye shall be mustered nothing hidden by you shall be hidden
Then as to him who will be vouchsafed his book in his right hand, he shall say: here! read my book
Verily I was sure that I should be a meeter of my reckoning
Then he shall be in a life well-pleasing
In a Garden lofty
Clusters whereof shall be near at hand
Eat and drink with benefit for that which ye sent on beforehand in dayspast
Then as to him who shall be vouchsafed his book in his left hand, he shall say: Oh! would that I had not been vouchsafed my book
Nor known whatever was my reckoning
Oh, would that it had been the ending
My riches have: availed me not
There hath perished from me my authority
Lay hold of him and chain him
Then in the Scorch roast hi
Then, in a chain whereof the length is seventy Cubits, bind him
Verily he was wont not to believe in Allah, the Mighty
Nor he urged on others the feeding of the poor
Wherefore for him here this Day there is no friend
Nor any food save filthy corruption
None shall eat it but the sinners
I swear by that which ye see
And that which ye see not
That it is surely the speech brought by messenger honourable
And it is not the speech of a poet. Little it is that ye believe
Nor is it the speech of a sooth- sayer. Little are ye admonished
It is a Revelation from the Lord of the worlds
And if he had forged concerning us some discourses
We surely had lain hold of him by the right hand
And then severed his life-vein
And not one of you would have withheld us from punishing him
And verily it is an Admonition Unto the God-fearing
And verily We! We know that some among you are beliers thereof
And verily it shall be an occasion of anguish Unto the infidels
And verily it is the truth of assured certainty
Wherefore hallow thou the name of thy Lord, the Mighty