Transliteration:( Sakkhara haa 'alaihim sab'a la yaalinw wa samaaniyata ayyaamin husooman fataral qawma feehaa sar'aa ka annahum a'jaazu nakhlin khaawiyah )
"Which He imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days continuously [5], so that you might have seen the people therein fallen [6] as if they were trunks of hollow date palm trees [7]."
The punishment upon the Aad people lasted for seven nights and eight days continuously, from twenty-two Shawwaal (from Wednesday to the next Wednesday). This extended period of suffering made the severity of their destruction all the more striking, as the fierce, roaring wind relentlessly ravaged them day and night.
The verse compares the fallen Aad people to hollow date palm trees. The people of Aad were known for their tall and strong build, but after the destructive wind, they were reduced to mere corpses, flung around by the force of the wind. This comparison emphasizes the complete annihilation of their once-mighty civilization, with their bodies discarded like broken trunks of trees.
After the wind destroyed the Aad people, their corpses were flung into the river by the same powerful wind. Their physical strength and towering presence were of no use against the divine punishment. This serves as a lesson that human power and might are insignificant in the face of Allah’s will, and no one can escape His justice.
The tafsir of Surah Al-Haqqah verse 7 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Haqqah ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 12.
(69:7) which He let loose upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession; so that (if you had been there) you might have seen people lying prostrate, as though they were uprooted trunks of hollowed palm trees.
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