بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمـٰنِ الرَّحيمِ الحاقَّةُ

The Inevitable Reality -

مَا الحاقَّةُ

What is the Inevitable Reality?

وَما أَدراكَ مَا الحاقَّةُ

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

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

سَخَّرَها عَلَيهِم سَبعَ لَيالٍ وَثَمانِيَةَ أَيّامٍ حُسومًا فَتَرَى القَومَ فيها صَرعىٰ كَأَنَّهُم أَعجازُ نَخلٍ خاوِيَةٍ

Which 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.

فَهَل تَرىٰ لَهُم مِن باقِيَةٍ

Then do you see of them any remains?

وَجاءَ فِرعَونُ وَمَن قَبلَهُ وَالمُؤتَفِكاتُ بِالخاطِئَةِ

And there came Pharaoh and those before him and the overturned cities with sin.