Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Haaqqa, Ayah 7

Al-Haaqqa · Ayah 7 · View Ayah
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍۢ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًۭا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍۢ
Which 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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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

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 Shawwāl and this was at the height of winter successively one after the next husūman it the action of the wind is likened to the repeated actions of a hāsim ‘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.

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(Which He imposed on them) uninterruptedly (for seven long nights and eight long days) with the same force (so that thou mightest have seen men) the people of Hud (lying) destroyed and (overthrown) in these days and nights; and it is said: in the wind, (as they were hollow trunks of palm-trees.

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