Quran 69:7 — Al-Haaqqa, verse 7
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks.
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ
sakharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layālin wathamāniyata ayyāmin ḥusūman fatarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā ka-annahum aʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyatin
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- violent that He compelled against them seven nights and eight days, uninterruptedly, and thou mightest see the people laid prostrate in it as if they were the stumps of fallen down palm-trees.
- Muhammad Asad
- 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:
- Sahih International
- 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.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | سَخَّرَهَاsakharahā | Which He imposed | سخر |
| 2 | عَلَيْهِمْʿalayhim | upon them | — |
| 3 | سَبْعَsabʿa | (for) seven | سبع |
| 4 | لَيَالٍۢlayālin | nights | ليل |
| 5 | وَثَمَـٰنِيَةَwathamāniyata | and eight | ثمن |
| 6 | أَيَّامٍayyāmin | days | يوم |
| 7 | حُسُومًۭاḥusūman | (in) succession | حسم |
| 8 | فَتَرَىfatarā | so you would see | رأي |
| 9 | ٱلْقَوْمَl-qawma | the people | قوم |
| 10 | فِيهَاfīhā | therein | — |
| 11 | صَرْعَىٰṣarʿā | fallen | صرع |
| 12 | كَأَنَّهُمْka-annahum | as if they were | — |
| 13 | أَعْجَازُaʿjāzu | trunks | عجز |
| 14 | نَخْلٍnakhlin | (of) date-palms | نخل |
| 15 | خَاوِيَةٍۢkhāwiyatin | hollow | خوي |