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In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

The Inevitable!

What is the Inevitable?

And what do you know what the Inevitable is?

Thamud and `Ad belied the coming of the sudden calamity.

Thamud were destroyed by a violent catastrophe

As for `Ad, they were destroyed by a furious windstorm;

Allah imposed it on them for seven nights and eight days continuously. (Had you been there) you would have seen them lying prostrate as though they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

Now do you see any of them still surviving?

And the same great crime did Pharaoh and the people before him and the overturned settlements commit.

They all disobeyed the Messenger of their Lord and He seized them with a terrible grip.

When the Flood waters rose abnormally high, We boarded you in the Ark,

that We may make the event a warning for you and that the retaining ears may retain its memory.

Then, when the Trumpet is blown once,

and the earth and the mountains are razed and crushed into pieces with a single stroke,

on that Day shall the Inevitable happen.

On that Day the heaven shall split asunder,

and its system shall loosen. The angels shall be on its sides and eight of them on that Day shall be upholding the Throne of your Lord, above them.

That will be the Day when you will be brought forth: no secret of yours will remain hidden.

Then whoso is given his record in his right hand, shall say: "Look! Read my record.

I knew that! would certainly be getting my account,"

So he shall be in a state of bliss,

in a high Garden,

whose clusters of fruit shall be hanging within easy reach.

(To such people it will be said) "Eat and drink with relish as a reward for the deeds you did in the days gone by."

As for him whose record is given in his left hand, he will say: "Would that I had not been given my record

nor known what my account was.

Would that the death (that I suffered in the world) were final.

Today my wealth has availed me nothing,

and I am robbed of all my power.

(It will be ordered:) "Seize him and chain him by the neck,

then cast him into Hell,

then fasten him in a chain seventy cubits long.

For he did not believe in Allah, the Most High,

nor urged the feeding of the poor.

So, he has neither any true friend here today

nor any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,

which none but the sinners eat.