Al-Haqqah
ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ
The Inevitable Hour!
مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ
What is the Inevitable Hour?
وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ
And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?
كَذَّبَتۡ ثَمُودُ وَعَادُۢ بِٱلۡقَارِعَةِ
˹Both˺ Thamûd and ’Ȃd denied the Striking Disaster.1
فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ
As for Thamûd, they were destroyed by an overwhelming blast.
وَأَمَّا عَادٞ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِرِيحٖ صَرۡصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٖ
And as for ’Ȃd, they were destroyed by a furious, bitter wind
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ سَبۡعَ لَيَالٖ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومٗاۖ فَتَرَى ٱلۡقَوۡمَ فِيهَا صَرۡعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٍ خَاوِيَةٖ
which Allah unleashed on them non-stop for seven nights and eight days, so that you would have seen its people lying dead like trunks of uprooted palm trees.
فَهَلۡ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِيَةٖ
Do you see any of them left alive?