The Reality
69. Al-Ḥāqqah
الحاقة
Page #566
69:7
سَخَّرَهَا
عَلَيْهِمْ
سَبْعَ
لَيَالٍ
وَثَمَانِيَةَ
أَيَّامٍ
حُسُومًا
فَتَرَى
الْقَوْمَ
فِيهَا
صَرْعَى
كَأَنَّهُمْ
أَعْجَازُ
نَخْلٍ
خَاوِيَةٍ
sakhkharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layālin wa-thamāniyata ʾayyāmin ḥusūman fa-tarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā ka-ʾannahum ʾaʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyatin
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!
— Abdullah Yusufali
which He clamped on them for seven gruelling nights and eight days, so that you could see the people there lying about prostrate as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.
