69. Haka · verses 1–8

ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ

Alhaqqatu

The Sure Reality!

مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ

Ma alhaqqatu

What is the Sure Reality?

وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ

Wama adraka ma alhaqqatu

And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?

كَذَّبَتۡ ثَمُودُ وَعَادُۢ بِٱلۡقَارِعَةِ

Kaththabat thamoodu waAAadun bialqariAAati

The Thamud and the ´Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!

فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ

Faamma thamoodu faohlikoo bialttaghiyati

But the Thamud,- they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!

وَأَمَّا عَادٞ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِرِيحٖ صَرۡصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٖ

Waamma AAadun faohlikoo bireehin sarsarin AAatiyatin

And the ´Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;

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

Sakhkharaha AAalayhim sabAAa layalin wathamaniyata ayyamin husooman fatara alqawma feeha sarAAa kaannahum aAAjazu nakhlin khawiyatun

He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!

فَهَلۡ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِيَةٖ

Fahal tara lahum min baqiyatin

Then seest thou any of them left surviving?