The Reality
Surah
Al-Haqqah
69

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The Inevitable Hour!

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What is the Inevitable Hour?

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And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is?

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˹Both˺ Thamûd and ’Ȃd denied the Striking Disaster.1

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As for Thamûd, they were destroyed by an overwhelming blast.

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And as for ’Ȃd, they were destroyed by a furious, bitter wind

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which Allah unleashed on them non-stop for seven nights and eight days, so that you would have seen its people lying dead like trunks of uprooted palm trees.

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Do you see any of them left alive?

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Also, Pharaoh and those before him, and ˹the people of˺ the overturned cities ˹of Lot˺ indulged in sin,

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each disobeying their Lord’s messenger, so He seized them with a crushing grip.

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