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Qur’an 69:5 Al-Haqqah, verse 5

فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِ

So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast].

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah
Al-Haqqah (69)
Verse
5 of 52
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
566

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
فَأَمَّاfa-ammāSo as for
ثَمُودُthamūduThamud
فَأُهْلِكُوا۟fa-uh'likūthey were destroyedه ل ك
بِٱلطَّاغِيَةِbil-ṭāghiyatiby the overpowering (blast)ط غ ي

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 69:5 in Al-Haqqah.

  • 69:3وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُAnd what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
  • 69:4كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌۢ بِٱلْقَارِعَةِThamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity.
  • 69:6وَأَمَّا عَادٌۭ فَأُهْلِكُوا۟ بِرِيحٍۢ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍۢAnd as for 'Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind
  • 69:7سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍۢ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًۭا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍۢWhich Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

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