Transliteration:( Kazzabat samoodu wa 'Aadum bil qaari'ah )
"The people of Thamud and Aad denied the Striking Calamity[2]."
QARIAH refers to the Day of Judgement, called the Striking Calamity because of the immense terror it will bring. On that day, people will experience great grief. The people of Aad and Thamud denied the Day of Judgement and were destroyed, serving as a warning to all.
The destruction of Aad and Thamud for their rejection of the truth is a warning to the infidels of Makkah. Just as those past nations were obliterated, so too will those who deny the certainty of the Day of Judgement face consequences.
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(69:4) The Thamud[3] and the Ad denied the (possibility of a) sudden calamity,[4] calling it false.
3. As the disbelievers of Makkah denied Resurrection and took the news of its coming lightly, they have been warned at the outset, as if to say: Resurrection is inevitable: whether you believe in it or not, it will in any case take place. Then, they are told: It is not a simple and ordinary thing that a person accepts the news of the coming of an event or not, but it has a deep relationship with the morals of the nations and with their future. The history of the nations, which lived before you, testifies that the nation which refused to believe in the Hereafter and thought this worldly life only to be the real life and denied that man would have ultimately to render an account of his deeds before God, corrupted itself morally until the punishment of God overtook it and eliminated it from the world.
4. The word al-qariah is derived from qar, which means to hammer, to beat, to knock and to strike one thing upon the other. This other word for Resurrection has been used to give an idea of its terror and dread.
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