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69:1  The incontestable (event).
69:2  What an incontestable (event)!
69:3  It is truly incontestable.
69:4  Thamoud and `Aad disbelieved in the Shocker.
69:5  As for Thamoud, they were annihilated by the devastating (quake).
69:6  As for `Aad, they were annihilated by a persistent, violent stor
69:7  He unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days, violently. You could see the people tossed around like decayed palm trunks.
69:8  Can you find any trace of them?
69:9  Pharaoh, others before him, and the sinners (of Sodom) were wicked.
69:10  They disobeyed the messenger of their Lord. Consequently, He requited them a devastating requital.
69:11  The flood was devastating, so we carried you on the floating (ark).
69:12  We rendered it a lesson for you, that any listening ear may understand.
69:13  When the horn is blown onc
69:14  The earth and the mountains will be carried off and crushed; utterly crushed.
69:15  That is the day when the inevitable event will come to pass.
69:16  The heaven will crack, and fall apart.
69:17  The angels will be all around, and Your Lord's dominion will then encompass eight (universes).
69:18  On that day, you will be exposed, nothing of you can be hidde
69:19  As for the one who receives his record with his right hand, he will say, "Come read my record.
69:20  "I did believe that I was going to be held accountable."
69:21  He has deserved a happy life.
69:22  In an exalted Paradis
69:23  Its fruits are within reach.
69:24  Eat and drink happily in return for your works in days past.
69:25  As for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I never received my recor
69:26  "I wish I never knew my account.
69:27  "I wish my death was eterna
69:28  "My money cannot help me.
69:29  "All my power is gone."
69:30  Take him and shackle him.
69:31  Burn him in Hell.
69:32  In a chain that is seventy arms long, tie him up.
69:33  For he did not believe in GOD, Most Great.
69:34  Nor did he advocate the feeding of the poor.
69:35  Consequently, he has no friend here.
69:36  Nor any food, except the bitter variety.
69:37  Food for the sinners.
69:38  I swear by what you se
69:39  And what you do not see.
69:40  This is the utterance of an honorable messenger.
69:41  Not the utterance of a poet; rarely do you believe.
69:42  Nor the utterance of a soothsayer; rarely do you take heed
69:43  A revelation from the Lord of the universe.
69:44  Had he uttered any other teachings.
69:45  We would have punished him.
69:46  We would have stopped the revelations to him.
69:47  None of you could have helped him.
69:48  This is a reminder for the righteous.
69:49  We know; some of you are rejectors.
69:50  It is but sorrow for the disbelievers.
69:51  It is the absolute truth.
69:52  Therefore, you shall glorify the name of your Lord, Most Great.