Surah Haqqah
The momentous event—
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what is the momentous event,
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and what will make you understand what the momentous event will be?
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The Thamud and the ‘Ad denied the catastrophe:
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As for the Thamud, they were destroyed by a storm;
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and the ‘Ad, they were destroyed by a violent, furious gale,
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which God sent against them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you could see the people prostrate in it, like stumps of fallen palms.
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Now do you see any of them surviving?
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Pharaoh and his predecessors too, and the overthrown cities also committed habitual sin,
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and disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, Who then inflicted an increasing penalty on them.
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