069.001 Y:  The Sure Reality!

P:  The Reality!

S:  The sure calamity!

069.002 Y:  What is the Sure Reality?

P:  What is the Reality?

S:  What is the sure calamity!

069.003 Y:  And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?

P:  Ah, what will convey unto thee what the reality is!

S:  And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!

069.004 Y:  The Thamud and the ’Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!

P:  (The tribes of) Thamud and A’ad disbelieved in the judgment to come.

S:  Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie.

069.005 Y:  But the Thamud,- they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!

P:  As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightning.

S:  Then as to Samood, they were destroyed by an excessively severe punishment.

069.006 Y:  And the ’Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;

P:  And as for A’ad, they were destroyed by a fierce roaring wind,

S:  And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent blast.

069.007 Y:  He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession:  so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!

P:  Which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that thou mightest have seen men lying overthrown, as they were hollow trunks of palm-trees.

S:  Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms.

069.008 Y:  Then seest thou any of them left surviving?

P:  Canst thou (O Muhammad) see any remnant of them?

S:  Do you then see of them one remaining?

069.009 Y:  And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.

P:  And Pharaoh and those before him, and the communities that were destroyed, brought error,

S:  And Firon and those before him and the overthrown cities continuously committed sins.

069.010 Y:  And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.

P:  And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, therefor did He grip them with a tightening grip.

S:  And they disobeyed the Messenger of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment.

069.011 Y:  We, when the water (of Noah’s Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),

P:  Lo! when the waters rose, We carried you upon the ship

S:  Surely We bore you up in the ship when the water rose high,

069.012 Y:  That We might make it a Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.