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Surah Al-Haqqah, Verse 7

سورة الحاقة، الآية ٧

69:7 Juz 29 Hizb 57 Page 566 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 69:7

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ ۝٧

Transliteration

sakharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layālin wathamāniyata ayyāmin ḥusūman fatarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā ka-annahum aʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyatin

Translation

Which He [i.e., Allāh] imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

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Verse 7 of Surah Al-Haqqah (69:7), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 566 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 7

Al-Mukhtasar

Allah released it upon them for seven nights and eight days, destroying them all. You would have seen the people destroyed in their homes, thrown onto the ground by the wind; as if they were the decomposed trunks of date palms fallen to the ground.

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Other translations of verse 7

which He unleashed against them for seven successive nights and eight days, so you would see the people lying dead as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

Which Allâh 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!

Which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that thou mightest have seen men lying overthrown, as they were hollow trunks of palm-trees.

He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!

Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms.

He subjected it against them seven nights and eight days in gruesome succession, so that you might have seen the people laid overthrown in it as if they were the hollow stumps of devastated palm- trees.

Verse 7 word by word

  1. سَخَّرَهَا sakharahā Which He imposed س خ ر
  2. عَلَيْهِمْ ʿalayhim upon them
  3. سَبْعَ sabʿa (for) seven س ب ع
  4. لَيَالٍ layālin nights ل ي ل
  5. وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ wathamāniyata and eight ث م ن
  6. أَيَّامٍ ayyāmin days ي و م
  7. حُسُومًا ḥusūman (in) succession ح س م
  8. فَتَرَى fatarā so you would see ر أ ي
  9. ٱلْقَوْمَ l-qawma the people ق و م
  10. فِيهَا fīhā therein
  11. صَرْعَىٰ ṣarʿā fallen ص ر ع
  12. كَأَنَّهُمْ ka-annahum as if they were
  13. أَعْجَازُ aʿjāzu trunks ع ج ز
  14. نَخْلٍ nakhlin (of) date-palms ن خ ل
  15. خَاوِيَةٍ khāwiyatin hollow خ و ي

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Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Fussilat 41:16

    فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا فِىٓ أَيَّامٍ نَّحِسَاتٍ لِّنُذِيقَهُمْ عَذَابَ ٱلْخِزْىِ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ أَخْزَىٰ وَهُمْ لَا يُنصَرُونَ

    So We sent upon them a screaming wind during days of misfortune to make them taste the punishment of disgrace in the worldly life; but the punishment of the Hereafter is more disgracing, and they will not be helped.

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