Translation of the Meanings Surah Al-Hāqqah - English Translation - Rowwad Translation Center - Page Number 566 - Encyclopedia of the Noble Quran

Al-Hāqqah

1 : 69

ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ

The Inevitable Hour!

2 : 69

مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ

What is the Inevitable Hour?

3 : 69

وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡحَآقَّةُ

How do you know what the Inevitable Hour is?

4 : 69

كَذَّبَتۡ ثَمُودُ وَعَادُۢ بِٱلۡقَارِعَةِ

Thamūd and ‘Ād denied the Striking Calamity of the Hour^[1].

[1] The Striking Calamity is one of the names of the Day of Judgment.

5 : 69

فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ

As for Thamūd, they were destroyed by a dreadful blast.

6 : 69

وَأَمَّا عَادٞ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِرِيحٖ صَرۡصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٖ

And as for ‘Ād, they were destroyed by a furious windstorm^[2]

[2] Or by a cold windstorm.

7 : 69

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

which He unleashed against them for seven successive nights and eight days, so you would see the people lying dead as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

8 : 69

فَهَلۡ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِيَةٖ

Do you see any trace of them now?