Surah Al-Haqqa

The Indubitable!

What is the Indubitable?

And what will teach thee what is the Indubitable?

Thamood and Ad cried lies to the Clatterer.

As for Thamood, they were destroyed by the Screamer;

and as for Ad, they were destroyed by a wind clamorous,

violent that He compelled against them seven nights and eight days, uninterruptedly, and thou mightest see the people laid prostrate in it as if they were the stumps of fallen down palm-trees.

Now dost thou see any remnant of them?

Pharaoh likewise, and those before him, and the Subverted Cities -- they committed error,

and they rebelled against the Messenger of their Lord, and He seized them with a surpassing grip.

Lo, when the waters rose, We bore you in the running ship

that We might make it a reminder for you and for heeding ears to hold.

So, when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast

and the earth and the mountains are lifted up and crushed with a single blow,

then, on that day, the Terror shall come to pass,