سورة هود، الآية ٦٧
وَأَخَذَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دِيَٰرِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ ٦٧
wa-akhadha alladhīna ẓalamū l-ṣayḥatu fa-aṣbaḥū fī diyārihim jāthimīna
And the shriek562 seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses] fallen prone
[562] A piercing cry or blast from the sky.
Verse 67 of Surah Hud (11:67), a Meccan surah, is in juz 12, on page 229 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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The great scream overtook the people of Thamūd, so that they perished from the strength of it; and in the morning, they lay face down upon the ground.
The huge blast34 seized those who did wrong, and they fell dead in their homes,
[34] i.e., a piercing cry.
And As-Saihah (torment - awful cry) overtook the wrong-doers, so they lay (dead), prostrate in their homes,
And the (awful) Cry overtook those who did wrong, so that morning found them prostrate in their dwellings,
The (mighty) Blast overtook the wrong-doers, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning,-
And the rumbling overtook those who were unjust, so they became motionless bodies in their abodes,
And the Shout took away (the ones) who did injustice, so (in the morning) they became cowering (bodies) in their residences.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا نَجَّيْنَا شُعَيْبًا وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مَعَهُۥ بِرَحْمَةٍ مِّنَّا وَأَخَذَتِ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دِيَٰرِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ
And when Our command came, We saved Shuʿayb and those who believed with him, by mercy from Us. And the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses] fallen prone
