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Al-Haqqah · 69:4

In context

1. ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ

   69:1The Inevitable Reality

2. مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ

   69:2What is the Inevitable Reality

3. وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ

   69:3And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality

4. كَذَّبَتۡ ثَمُودُ وَعَادُۢ بِٱلۡقَارِعَةِ

   69:4Thamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity

5. فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ

   69:5So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast]

6. وَأَمَّا عَادٞ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِرِيحٖ صَرۡصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٖ

   69:6And as for 'Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind

7. سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ سَبۡعَ لَيَالٖ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومٗاۖ فَتَرَى ٱلۡقَوۡمَ فِيهَا صَرۡعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٍ خَاوِيَةٖ

   69:7Which Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees