(69:1) The Inevitable Reality - (69:2) What is the Inevitable Reality? (69:3) And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality? (69:4) Thamud and `Aad denied the Striking Calamity. (69:5) So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast]. (69:6) And as for `Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind (69:7) 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.