7 Preface سَخَّرَها عَلَيهِم سَبعَ لَيالٍ وَثَمانِيَةَ أَيّامٍ حُسومًا فَتَرَى القَومَ فيها صَرعىٰ كَأَنَّهُم أَعجازُ نَخلٍ خاوِيَةٍAli Quli Qaraiwhich He disposed against them for seven grueling1 nights and eight days, so that you could have seen the people lying about therein prostrate as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees. Or ‘successive.’