69.1. The Sure Reality.

69.2. What is the Sure Reality?!

69.3. And what enables you to perceive what the Sure Reality is?

69.4. The (tribes) of Thamūd and ‘Ād denied the Sudden, Mighty Strike.

69.5. Now as for the (tribe of) Thamūd – they were destroyed by the overwhelming (catastrophe).

69.6. And the (tribe of) ‘Ād – they were destroyed with a furious, roaring windstorm,

69.7. Which God made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days, uninterruptedly, so that you could have seen people lying overthrown in it, as though they were hollow trunks of palm-trees.

69.8. Now do you see any of them remaining?

69.9. And there was the Pharaoh, and many other communities before him, and the cities overthrown (where Lot's people lived): all of them indulged in the unpardonable sins.

69.10. And they rebelled against their Lord's Messenger (sent to each to warn them), and so He took hold of them with a severe seizing.