The Wind-Curved Sandhills
46. Al-'Aḥqāf
الأحقاف

al-Aḥqāf (The Sandhills)

ٱلْأَحْقَاف

46:24
46:24

fa-lammā raʾawhu ʿāriḍan mustaqbila ʾawdiyatihim qālū hādhā ʿāriḍun mumṭirunā bal huwa staʿjaltum bihī rīhun fīhā ʿadhābun ʾalīmun

When they saw it as a cloud advancing toward their valleys, they said, ‘This cloud brings us rain.’ ‘No, it is what you sought to hasten: a hurricane carrying a painful punishment,

Ali Quli Qarai