مَا الحاقَّةُ

What is the Inevitable Reality?

وَما أَدراكَ مَا الحاقَّةُ

And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?

كَذَّبَت ثَمودُ وَعادٌ بِالقارِعَةِ

Thamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity.

فَأَمّا ثَمودُ فَأُهلِكوا بِالطّاغِيَةِ

So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast].

وَأَمّا عادٌ فَأُهلِكوا بِريحٍ صَرصَرٍ عاتِيَةٍ

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