الحاقة

[1]OH, THE LAYING-BARE of the truth!

[2]How awesome that laying-bare of the truth!

[3]And what could make thee conceive what that laying-bare of the truth will be?

[4]THE LIE gave [the tribes of] Thamud and ‘Ad to [all tidings of] that sudden calamity!

[5]Now as for the Thamud - they were destroyed by a violent upheaval [of the earth];

[6]and as for the ‘Ad - they were destroyed by a storm wind furiously raging,

[7]which He willed against them for seven nights and eight days without cease, so that in the end thou couldst see those people laid low [in death], as though they were so many [uprooted] trunks of hollow palm trees:

[8]and dost thou now see any remnant of them?

[9]And there was Pharaoh, too, and [many of] those who lived before him, and the cities that were overthrown - [all of them] indulged in sin upon sin

[10]and rebelled against their Sustainer's apostles: and so He took them to task with a punishing grasp exceedingly severe!