The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 311
General Remarks CHAPTER 69 AL-ḤĀQQAH (Revealed before Hijrah) The Surah, like its predecessor, was, as its subject matter shows, among the earliest chapters revealed at Mecca. It is almost entirely devoted to the subject of the inevitability of the Resurrection; and adduces the sure and certain success of the Holy Prophet against heavy odds as an argument in support of that hypothesis. As the Holy Prophet's ultimate success, and the Resurrection were regarded by the disbelievers as impossible, the coming to pass of the one did indeed constitute an incontrovertible proof that the other would also happen. Thus the Surah opens with a firm and emphatic declaration that enemies of truth shall be routed, and disbelievers are warned that if they do not desist from their evil course, they will be punished like the people of Noah, the ‘Ād and Thamūd tribes and the mighty hosts of Pharaoh. They "disobeyed the Messenger of their Lord, so He seized them- a severe seizing. " The Surah draws a parallel between the destruction of the rejecters of Divine Message and the Resurrection, and proceeds to say that for disbelievers the "hour" of punishment will be most distressful and agonizing; for the believers it will be a time of perennial joy and happiness. The righteous servants of God "will have a delightful life in a lofty Garden," and the deniers of truth "will be seized, fettered and cast into Hell. " The Surah closes with a firm and emphatic declaration that both these events the Resurrection and the success of the Prophet's cause, will most surely come to pass, because what the Prophet says is God's own revealed Word and not the bragging of a poet or the idle conjecture of a soothsayer, for, if he had forged a lie against God, he would have met with sure and violent death, because a forger is never allowed to prosper. 3207