41فَأَخَذَتهُمُ الصَّيحَةُ بِالحَقِّ فَجَعَلناهُم غُثاءً ۚ فَبُعدًا لِلقَومِ الظّالِمينَMuhammad AsadAnd then the blast [of Our punishment] overtook them, justly and unavoidably,1 and We caused them to become as the flotsam of dead leaves and the scum borne on the surface of a torrent: and so away with those evildoing folk!The expression bi'l-haqq (lit., "in accordance with truth" or "with justice") combines in this instance the concepts of justice, wisdom, reality, inescapability, and consonance with the exigencies of the case under consideration (Righib), and can be only approximately rendered in translation.