Read surah Al-Haaqqa

۞ ٱلۡحَاۤقَّةُ 

OH, THE LAYING-BARE of the truth!

مَا ٱلۡحَاۤقَّةُ 

How awesome that laying-bare of the truth!

وَمَاۤ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡحَاۤقَّةُ 

And what could make thee conceive what that laying-bare of the truth will be?

كَذَّبَتۡ ثَمُودُ وَعَادُۢ بِٱلۡقَارِعَةِ 

THE LIE gave [the tribes of] Thamud and ‘Ad to [all tidings of] that sudden calamity!

فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهۡلِكُوا۟ بِٱلطَّاغِیَةِ 

Now as for the Thamud - they were destroyed by a violent upheaval [of the earth];

وَأَمَّا عَادࣱ فَأُهۡلِكُوا۟ بِرِیحࣲ صَرۡصَرٍ عَاتِیَةࣲ 

and as for the ‘Ad - they were destroyed by a storm wind furiously raging,

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَیۡهِمۡ سَبۡعَ لَیَالࣲ وَثَمَـٰنِیَةَ أَیَّامٍ حُسُومࣰاۖ فَتَرَى ٱلۡقَوۡمَ فِیهَا صَرۡعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٍ خَاوِیَةࣲ 

which He willed against them for seven nights and eight days without cease, so that in the end thou couldst see those people laid low [in death], as though they were so many [uprooted] trunks of hollow palm trees:

فَهَلۡ تَرَىٰ لَهُم مِّنۢ بَاقِیَةࣲ 

and dost thou now see any remnant of them?

وَجَاۤءَ فِرۡعَوۡنُ وَمَن قَبۡلَهُۥ وَٱلۡمُؤۡتَفِكَـٰتُ بِٱلۡخَاطِئَةِ 

And there was Pharaoh, too, and [many of] those who lived before him, and the cities that were overthrown - [all of them] indulged in sin upon sin

فَعَصَوۡا۟ رَسُولَ رَبِّهِمۡ فَأَخَذَهُمۡ أَخۡذَةࣰ رَّابِیَةً 

and rebelled against their Sustainer's apostles: and so He took them to task with a punishing grasp exceedingly severe!