Surah Al-Ĥāqqah (The Reality) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. الحاقة

   1

   The Besieger!

   al-ḥāqqatu

2. ما الحاقة

   2

   What is the Besieger?!

   mā l-ḥāqqatu

3. وما أدراك ما الحاقة

   3

   What will show you what is the Besieger?!

   wa-mā ʾadrāka mā l-ḥāqqatu

4. كذبت ثمود وعاد بالقارعة

   4

   Thamudand ‘Ad denied the Cataclysm.

   kadhdhabat thamūdu wa-ʿādun bi-l-qāriʿati

5. فأما ثمود فأهلكوا بالطاغية

   5

   As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the Cry.

   fa-ʾammā thamūdu fa-ʾuhlikū bi-ṭ-ṭāghiyati

6. وأما عاد فأهلكوا بريح صرصر عاتية

   6

   And as for ‘Ad, they were destroyed by a fierce icy gale,

   wa-ʾammā ʿādun fa-ʾuhlikū bi-rīḥin ṣarṣarin ʿātiyatin

7. سخرها عليهم سبع ليال وثمانية أيام حسوما فترى القوم فيها صرعى كأنهم أعجاز نخل خاوية

   7

   which He clamped on them for seven gruelling nights and eight days, so that you could see the people there lying about prostrate as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

   sakhkharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layālin wa-thamāniyata ʾayyāmin ḥusūman fa-tarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā ka-ʾannahum ʾaʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyatin

8. فهل ترى لهم من باقية

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   So do you see any remaining trace of them?

   fa-hal tarā lahum min bāqiyatin