The Wind-Curved Sandhills
46. Al-'Aḥqāf
الأحقاف
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تُدَمِّرُ
كُلَّ
شَيْءٍ
بِأَمْرِ
رَبِّهَا
فَأَصْبَحُوا
لَا
يُرَى
إِلَّا
مَسَاكِنُهُمْ
كَذَلِكَ
نَجْزِي
الْقَوْمَ
الْمُجْرِمِينَ
tudammiru kulla shayʾin bi-ʾamri rabbihā fa-ʾaṣbaḥū lā yurā ʾillā masākinuhum ka-dhālika najzī l-qawma l-mujrimīna
destroying everything by its Lord’s command.’ So they became such that nothing could be seen except their dwellings. Thus do We requite the guilty lot.
— Ali Quli Qarai
"Everything will it destroy by the command of its Lord!" Then by the morning they - nothing was to be seen but (the ruins of) their houses! thus do We recompense those given to sin!
