ٱلْحَاقَّة : ٧

  • سَخَّرَهَا Which He imposed
  • عَلَيۡهِمۡ upon them
  • سَبۡعَ (for) seven
  • لَيَالٖ nights
  • وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ and eight
  • أَيَّامٍ days
  • حُسُومٗاۖ (in) succession
  • فَتَرَى so you would see
  • ٱلۡقَوۡمَ the people
  • فِيهَا therein
  • صَرۡعَىٰ fallen
  • كَأَنَّهُمۡ as if they were
  • أَعۡجَازُ trunks
  • نَخۡلٍ (of) date-palms
  • خَاوِيَةٖ hollow
Which He [i.e., Allāh] 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.
He forced it upon them for seven nights and eight days, the first of which was the morning of Wednesday, eight days before the end of [the month of] Shawwaal, and this was at the height of winter, successively, one after the next (husooman: it [the action of the wind] is likened to the repeated actions of a haasim, 'one cauterizing a wound', time and again until it [the blood] has been cut off, inhsama) so that you might have seen the people therein lying prostrate, lying dead on the ground, as if they were the hollow, collapsed, trunks of palm-trees.