Verse 69:7 in Context

Translator Abdel Haleem
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 10 فَعَصَوۡا۟ رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمۡ فَأَخَذَهُمۡ أَخۡذَةࣰ رَّابِیَةً ۝١٠ faʿaṣaw rasūla rabbihim fa-akhadhahum akhdhatan rābiyata and disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with an ever-tightening grip 11 إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا ٱلۡمَاۤءُ حَمَلۡنَـٰكُمۡ فِی ٱلۡجَارِیَةِ ۝١١ innā lammā ṭaghā l-māu ḥamalnākum fī l-jāriyat But when the Flood rose high, We saved you in the floating ship

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