Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Haqqah Verse 3

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And what can let you know what the Imminent happening is?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?

Ruwwad Translation Center

How do you know what the Inevitable Hour is?

A. J. Arberry

And what will teach thee what is the Indubitable?

Abdul Haleem

What will explain to you what the Inevitable Hour is?

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And what shall make thee know that which the Inevitable Calamity is.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?

Abul Ala Maududi

And what do you know what that indubitable event is?

Ahmed Ali

What do you comprehend by the concrete reality?

Ahmed Raza Khan

And what have you understood, how tremendous the true event is!

Ali Quli Qarai

What will show you what is the Besieger?!

Ali Ünal

And what enables you to perceive what the Sure Reality is?

Amatul Rahman Omar

(Before it actually takes place) you know little (what it is) and what should make you know what that great inevitable reality is?

English Literal

And what makes you know what (is) the disaster/catastrophe/reality ?

Faridul Haque

And what have you understood, how tremendous the true event is!

Hamid S. Aziz

And what would make you realize what the sure Reality is?

Hilali & Khan

And what will make you know what the Reality is?

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Then as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the severe punishment.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Ah, what will convey unto thee what the reality is!

Muhammad Sarwar

Would that you knew (in detail) what the Inevitable is!

Qaribullah & Darwish

What makes you to know what the Resurrection Verifier is?

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And what will make you know what Al-Haqqah is

Wahiduddin Khan

And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?

Talal Itani

What will make you understand what the Reality is?

Tafsir jalalayn

And how would you know what the Reality is? ([repeated as] an extra emphasis of its enormity; the first m [of the previous verse] is the subject, the second one, its predicate; the second m and its predicate also function as the second direct object of [the verb] `knowing').

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And what will make you know what Al-Haqqah is?
Mention of the Destruction of the Nations

Then Allah mentions the destruction of the nations that denied the Resurrection. He says,

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌ بِالْقَارِعَةِ