Surat Al-Ĥāqqah (The Reality) - سورة الحاقة

: The Reality (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)!

: What is the Reality?

: And what will make you know what the Reality is?

: Thamud and 'Ad people denied the Qari'ah [the striking Hour (of Judgement)]!

: As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the awful cry!

: And as for 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious violent wind;

: Which Allah imposed on them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so that you could see men lying overthrown (destroyed), as if they were hollow trunks of date-palms!

: Do you see any remnants of them?

: And Fir'aun (Pharaoh), and those before him, and the cities overthrown [the towns of the people of [Lout (Lot)] committed sin,