68:43Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound.1
68:44So leave Me, [O Muḥammad], with [the matter of] whoever denies this statement [i.e., the Qur’ān]. We will progressively lead them [to punishment] from where they do not know.1
68:45And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.
68:46Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?
68:47Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?
68:48Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muḥammad], and be not like the companion of the fish [i.e., Jonah] when he called out while he was distressed.
68:49If not that a favor [i.e., mercy] from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.1
68:50And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.
68:51And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes [i.e., looks] when they hear the message, and they say, "Indeed, he is mad."
68:52But it is not except a reminder to the worlds.
69:1The Inevitable Reality -
69:2What is the Inevitable Reality?
69:3And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
69:4Thamūd and ʿAad denied the Striking Calamity [i.e., the Resurrection].
69:5So as for Thamūd, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast].
69:6And as for ʿAad, they were destroyed by a screaming,1 violent wind
69:7Which He [i.e., Allāh] 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.
69:8Then do you see of them any remains?