Al-Haqqah

The indubitable event!

And what is that indubitable event?

And what do you know what that indubitable event is?

The Thamud and the Ad denied the (possibility of a) sudden calamity, calling it false.

Then the Thamud were destroyed by an awesome upheaval;

and the Ad were destroyed by a furiously raging wind-storm

which He let loose upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession; so that (if you had been there) you might have seen people lying prostrate, as though they were uprooted trunks of hollowed palm trees.

Do you now see any trace of them?

Pharaoh and those before him and the people of the overturned habitations all engaged in the same great sin.

They did not follow the Messenger of their Lord, and so He seized them with a severe grip.