Rowwad Translation Center — 566

68:43 Their eyes will be downcast, overwhelmed with humiliation, for they were invited to prostrate when they were capable[1] [but they refused].

68:44 So leave to Me those who reject this message [O Prophet]. We will gradually lead them to their ruin in ways that they do not perceive[1].

68:45 I will give them respite, but My plan is firm.

68:46 Or are you asking them for a reward, so they find it too burdensome?

68:47 Or do they have knowledge of the unseen, so they write it down?

68:48 So be patient with the decree of your Lord, and do not be like the man of the Whale [i.e., Jonah], when he cried out in anguish[1].

68:49 Had it not been for the grace that he received from his Lord, he would have surely been thrown onto the barren shore, blameworthy[1].

68:50 But his Lord chose him and made him one of the righteous.

68:51 The disbelievers would almost strike you down with their malicious gazes when they hear the Reminder, and they say, “He is certainly mad.”

68:52 But it is nothing other than a reminder to the whole world.

69:1 The Inevitable Hour!

69:2 What is the Inevitable Hour?

69:3 How do you know what the Inevitable Hour is?

69:4 Thamūd and ‘Ād denied the Striking Calamity of the Hour[1].

69:5 As for Thamūd, they were destroyed by a dreadful blast.

69:6 And as for ‘Ād, they were destroyed by a furious windstorm[1]

69:7 which He unleashed against them for seven successive nights and eight days, so you would see the people lying dead as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

69:8 Do you see any trace of them now?