الواقعة
56 - The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
Order of Revelation: 46فِي كِتَابٍ مَّكْنُونٍ
Fee kitabin maknoonin
In a Book well-guarded,
[conveyed unto man] in a well-guarded divine writ
In Book well-guarded,
In a Book kept hidden
In a book that is protected,
In a Register well-protected;
لَّا يَمَسُّهُ إِلَّا الْمُطَهَّرُونَ
La yamassuhu illa almutahharoona
None touch it except the purified.
which none but the pure [of heart] can touch:
Which none shall touch but those who are clean:
Which none toucheth save the purified,
Which none touches save the purified ones.
None touch it except the purified.
تَنزِيلٌ مِّن رَّبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
Tanzeelun min rabbi alAAalameena
A Revelation from (the) Lord (of) the worlds.
a revelation from the Sustainer of all the worlds!
A Revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.
A revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.
A revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
[It is] a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
أَفَبِهَٰذَا الْحَدِيثِ أَنتُم مُّدْهِنُونَ
Afabihatha alhadeethi antum mudhinoona
Then is it to this statement that you (are) indifferent?
Would you, now, look down with disdain on a tiding like this,
Is it such a Message that ye would hold in light esteem?
Is it this Statement that ye scorn,
Is it this announcement that you disdain?
Then is it to this statement that you are indifferent
وَتَجْعَلُونَ رِزْقَكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ تُكَذِّبُونَ
WatajAAaloona rizqakum annakum tukaththiboona
And you make your provision that you deny.
and make it your daily bread [as it were] to call the truth a lie?
And have ye made it your livelihood that ye should declare it false?
And make denial thereof your livelihood?
And make your denial your means of subsistence.
And make [the thanks for] your provision that you deny [the Provider]?
فَلَوْلَا إِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْحُلْقُومَ
Falawla itha balaghati alhulqooma
Then why not when it reaches the throat,
Why, then, when [the last breath] comes up to the throat [of a dying man],
Then why do ye not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat,-
Why, then, when (the soul) cometh up to the throat (of the dying)
Why is it not then that when it comes up to the throat,
Then why, when the soul at death reaches the throat