Verse 69:5 in Context
Translator
Abdel Haleem
1
۞ ٱلۡحَاۤقَّةُ ١
al-ḥāqat
The Inevitable Hour
2
مَا ٱلۡحَاۤقَّةُ ٢
mā l-ḥāqat
What is the Inevitable Hour
3
وَمَاۤ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡحَاۤقَّةُ ٣
wamā adrāka mā l-ḥāqat
What will explain to you what the Inevitable Hour is
4
كَذَّبَتۡ ثَمُودُ وَعَادُۢ بِٱلۡقَارِعَةِ ٤
kadhabat thamūdu waʿādun bil-qāriʿat
The people of Thamud and 'Ad denied that the crashing blowwould come
5
فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهۡلِكُوا۟ بِٱلطَّاغِیَةِ ٥
fa-ammā thamūdu fa-uh'likū bil-ṭāghiyat
Thamud was destroyed by a deafening blast
6
وَأَمَّا عَادࣱ فَأُهۡلِكُوا۟ بِرِیحࣲ صَرۡصَرٍ عَاتِیَةࣲ ٦
wa-ammā ʿādun fa-uh'likū birīḥin ṣarṣarin ʿātiyati
Ad was destroyed by a furious win
7
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَیۡهِمۡ سَبۡعَ لَیَالࣲ وَثَمَـٰنِیَةَ أَیَّامٍ حُسُومࣰاۖ فَتَرَى ٱلۡقَوۡمَ فِیهَا صَرۡعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٍ خَاوِیَةࣲ ٧
sakharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layālin wathamāniyata ayyāmin ḥusūman fatarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā ka-annahum aʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyati
that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks
8
فَهَلۡ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِیَةࣲ ٨
fahal tarā lahum min bāqiyati
Can you see any trace of them now
9
وَجَاۤءَ فِرۡعَوۡنُ وَمَن قَبۡلَهُۥ وَٱلۡمُؤۡتَفِكَـٰتُ بِٱلۡخَاطِئَةِ ٩
wajāa fir'ʿawnu waman qablahu wal-mu'tafikātu bil-khāṭi-at
Pharaoh, too, and those before him, and the ruined cities: these people committed grave sins
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