Surah Haqqah Ayat 4 in Arabic Text
English Translation
Here you can read various translations of verse 4
Thamud and ‘Aad denied the Striking Calamity.
The Thamud and the ‘Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
The Thamud and the Ad denied the (possibility of a) sudden calamity, calling it false.
Thamud and ‘Ad people denied the Qari’ah [the striking Hour (of Judgement)]!
(The tribes of) Thamud and A’ad disbelieved in the judgment to come.
Thamûd and cهd cried lies to the Smiter.
The people of Thamud and ‘Ad denied that the crashing blowwould come:
اس کھڑکا دینے والی کو ﺛمود اور عاد نے جھٹلا دیا تھا
Quran 69 Verse 4 Explanation
For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Haqqah ayat 4, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.
Ala-Maududi
(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.
Ibn-Kathir
The tafsir of Surah Al-Haqqah verse 4 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Haqqah ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 12.
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