Surah Al-Haqqah

The first section (v. 1-37) is about the Hereafter and the second (v. 38-52) about the Qur’an’s being a revelation from Allah and the Prophet’s ﷺbeing a true Messenger of Allah. The first section opens with the assertion that the coming of the Resurrection and the occurrence of the Hereafter is a truth which has to take place inevitably. Then in v. 4-12, it has been stated that the communities that denied the Hereafter in the past became worthy of Allah’s punishment. In v. 13-17, the occurrence of Resurrection has been depicted. In v. 18-37, the real object for which Allah has destined a second life for mankind after the present worldly life. In it we are told that on that Day all men shall appear in the Court of their Lord, where no secret of theirs shall remain hidden; each man’s record will be placed in his hand.

Those who had spent lives in the world with the realization that one day they would have to render an account of their deeds before their Lord, and who had worked righteously in the world and provided beforehand for their well-being in the Hereafter, will rejoice when they see that they have been acquitted and blessed with the eternal bliss of Paradise. On the contrary, those who neither recognised the rights of Allah, nor discharged the rights of men, will have no one to save them from the punishment of Allah, and they will be cast into Hell.

In the second section (v. 38-52) the disbelievers of Makkah have been addressed and told: “You think this Qur’an is the word of a poet or soothsayer, whereas it is a Revelation sent down by Allah, which is being presented by the noble Messengers. The Messenger by himself had no power to increase or decrease a word in it. If he forges something of his own composition into it, We will cut off his aorta.”