Al-Haqqah
ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ
(69:1) The indubitable event!1
مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ
(69:2) And what is that indubitable event?
وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ
(69:3) And what do you know what that indubitable event is?2
كَذَّبَتۡ ثَمُودُ وَعَادُۢ بِٱلۡقَارِعَةِ
(69:4) The Thamud3 and the Ad denied the (possibility of a) sudden
calamity,4 calling it false.
calamity,4 calling it false.
فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ
(69:5) Then the Thamud were destroyed by an awesome upheaval;5
وَأَمَّا عَادٞ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِرِيحٖ صَرۡصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٖ
(69:6) and the Ad were destroyed by a furiously raging wind-storm
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ سَبۡعَ لَيَالٖ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومٗاۖ فَتَرَى ٱلۡقَوۡمَ فِيهَا صَرۡعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٍ خَاوِيَةٖ
(69:7) which He let loose upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession;
so that (if you had been there) you might have seen people lying prostrate,
as though they were uprooted trunks of hollowed palm trees.
so that (if you had been there) you might have seen people lying prostrate,
as though they were uprooted trunks of hollowed palm trees.