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سورة الحَاقَّة

Surah Al-Hâqqah 69:45

The Great Inevitable Reality · Verse 45 of 52

لَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِينِ

Abdul Mannan Omar

We would have certainly seized him strongly by the right hand (and so deprived him of all his power),

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

We should certainly seize him by his right hand,

Ahmed Ali

We would have seized him by his right hand,

12 more translations

Ali Unal

We would certainly have seized him with might,

Daryabadi

We surely had lain hold of him by the right hand.

Faridul Haque

We would have definitely taken revenge from him.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

We would certainly have seized him by the right hand,

Maulvi Sher Ali

We would, surely, have seized him by the right hand,

Muhammad Asad

We would indeed have seized him by his right hand,

Muhammad Musin Khan

We surely should have seized him by his right hand (or with power and might),

Muhammad Pickthall

We assuredly had taken him by the right hand

Muhammad Sarwar

We would have caught hold of him by his right hand

Muhammed ali Shakir

We would certainly have seized him by the right hand,

Rashad Khalifa

We would have punished him.

Shabbir Ahmed

We would have taken him by the right hand,

Commentary 69:44-46 This verse and the following three lay down an excellent standard to test the truthfulness of the claim of any prophethood. The argument is given that…

On 69:44–46

وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ الْأَقَاوِيلِ

69:44-46 This verse and the following three lay down an excellent standard to test the truthfulness of the claim of any prophethood. The argument is given that if the Holy Prophet (pbuh) had been a forger, Allâh’s strong hand would have seized him by the throat, he would have been under constant curse of Allâh and His people, and he would have certainly met with a violent death and his whole mission would have certainly failed. Such is the fate of a false prophet and of one who fabricates Divine Revelation. It is a special grace conferred on the Holy Prophet (pbuh) that the period of his prophethood has been cited as a test for the truthfulness of his claim and the claims of any true Prophet of Allâh (cf. 72:27).