Quran Verses about Natural disasters

حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءَ أَمۡرُنَا وَفَارَ ٱلتَّنُّورُ قُلۡنَا ٱحۡمِلۡ فِيهَا مِن كُلّٖ زَوۡجَيۡنِ ٱثۡنَيۡنِ وَأَهۡلَكَ إِلَّا مَن سَبَقَ عَلَيۡهِ ٱلۡقَوۡلُ وَمَنۡ ءَامَنَۚ وَمَآ ءَامَنَ مَعَهُۥٓ إِلَّا قَلِيلٞ ٤٠

Ḥattā idhā jāʾa amrunā wa fārat-tannūru qulnaḥmil fīhā min kullin zawjaynithnayni wa ahlaka illā man sabaqa ʿalayhil-qawlu wa man āman, wa mā āmana maʿahū illā qalīl.

[So it was], until when Our command came and the oven overflowed,¹ We said, "Load upon it [i.e., the ship] of each [creature] two mates and your family, except those about whom the word [i.e., decree] has preceded, and [include] whoever has believed." But none had believed with him, except a few.

۞ وَقَالَ ٱرۡكَبُواْ فِيهَا بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ مَجۡر۪ىٰهَا وَمُرۡسَىٰهَآۚ إِنَّ رَبِّي لَغَفُورٞ رَّحِيمٞ ٤١

Wa qālarkabū fīhā bismillāhi majrēhā wa mursāhā, inna rabbī laghafūrur raḥīm.

And [Noah] said, "Embark therein; in the name of Allāh [are] its course and its anchorage. Indeed, my Lord is Forgiving and Merciful."

وَهِيَ تَجۡرِي بِهِمۡ فِي مَوۡجٖ كَٱلۡجِبَالِ وَنَادَىٰ نُوحٌ ٱبۡنَهُۥ وَكَانَ فِي مَعۡزِلٖ يَٰبُنَيَّ ٱرۡكَب مَّعَنَا وَلَا تَكُن مَّعَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ ٤٢

Wa hiya tajrī bihim fī mawjin kal-jibāli wa nādā nūḥunibnahū wa kāna fī maʿziliy yābunayyarkab maʿanā wa lā takum maʿal-kāfirīn.

And it sailed with them through waves like mountains, and Noah called to his son who was apart [from them], "O my son, come aboard with us and be not with the disbelievers."

قَالَ سَـَٔاوِيٓ إِلَىٰ جَبَلٖ يَعۡصِمُنِي مِنَ ٱلۡمَآءِۚ قَالَ لَا عَاصِمَ ٱلۡيَوۡمَ مِنۡ أَمۡرِ ٱللَّهِ إِلَّا مَن رَّحِمَۚ وَحَالَ بَيۡنَهُمَا ٱلۡمَوۡجُ فَكَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُغۡرَقِينَ ٤٣

Qāla saʾāwī ilā jabaliy yaʿṣimunī minal-māʾ, qāla lā ʿāṣimal-yawma min amrillāhi illā mar raḥim, wa ḥāla baynahumal-mawju fakāna minal-mughraqīn.

[But] he said, "I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the water." [Noah] said, "There is no protector today from the decree of Allāh, except for whom He gives mercy." And the waves came between them, and he was among the drowned.

وَقِيلَ يَٰٓأَرۡضُ ٱبۡلَعِي مَآءَكِ وَيَٰسَمَآءُ أَقۡلِعِي وَغِيضَ ٱلۡمَآءُ وَقُضِيَ ٱلۡأَمۡرُ وَٱسۡتَوَتۡ عَلَى ٱلۡجُودِيِّۖ وَقِيلَ بُعۡدٗا لِّلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ ٤٤

Wa qīla yāʾarḍublaʿī māʾaki wa yāsamāʾu aqliʿī wa ghīḍal-māʾu wa quḍiyal-amru wastawat ʿalal-jūdiyy, wa qīla buʿdal lil-qawmiẓ-ẓālimīn.

And it was said, "O earth, swallow your water, and O sky, withhold [your rain]." And the water subsided, and the matter was accomplished, and it [i.e., the ship] came to rest on the [mountain of] Jūdiyy. And it was said, "Away with the wrongdoing people."

وَلَقَدۡ أَرۡسَلۡنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوۡمِهِۦ فَلَبِثَ فِيهِمۡ أَلۡفَ سَنَةٍ إِلَّا خَمۡسِينَ عَامٗا فَأَخَذَهُمُ ٱلطُّوفَانُ وَهُمۡ ظَٰلِمُونَ ١٤

Wa laqad arsalnā nūḥan ilā qawmihī falabitha fīhim alfa sanatin illā khamsīna ʿāman fa akhadhahumuṭ-ṭūfānu wa hum ẓālimūn.

And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them a thousand years minus fifty years, and the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers.

فَفَتَحۡنَآ أَبۡوَٰبَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَآءٖ مُّنۡهَمِرٖ ١١

Fafataḥnā abwābas-samāʾi bimāʾim munhamir.

Then We opened the gates of the heaven with rain pouring down

وَفَجَّرۡنَا ٱلۡأَرۡضَ عُيُونٗا فَٱلۡتَقَى ٱلۡمَآءُ عَلَىٰٓ أَمۡرٖ قَدۡ قُدِرَ ١٢

Wa fajjarnal-arḍa ʿuyūnan fal-taqal-māʾu ʿalā amrin qad qudir.

And caused the earth to burst with springs, and the waters met for a matter already predestined.

إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا ٱلۡمَآءُ حَمَلۡنَٰكُمۡ فِي ٱلۡجَارِيَةِ ١١

Innā lammā ṭaghal-māʾu ḥamalnākum fil-jāriyah.

Indeed, when the water overflowed, We carried you [i.e., your ancestors] in the sailing ship¹

فَأَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ رِيحٗا صَرۡصَرٗا فِيٓ أَيَّامٖ نَّحِسَاتٖ لِّنُذِيقَهُمۡ عَذَابَ ٱلۡخِزۡيِ فِي ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡيَاۖ وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ أَخۡزَىٰۖ وَهُمۡ لَا يُنصَرُونَ ١٦

Fa arsalnā ʿalayhim rīḥan ṣarṣaran fī ayyāmin naḥisātil linudhīqahum ʿadhābal-khizyi fil-ḥayātid-dunyā, wa laʿadhābul-ākhirati akhzā, wa hum lā yunṣarūn.

So We sent upon them a screaming wind during days of misfortune to make them taste the punishment of disgrace in the worldly life; but the punishment of the Hereafter is more disgracing, and they will not be helped.

فَلَمَّا رَأَوۡهُ عَارِضٗا مُّسۡتَقۡبِلَ أَوۡدِيَتِهِمۡ قَالُواْ هَٰذَا عَارِضٞ مُّمۡطِرُنَاۚ بَلۡ هُوَ مَا ٱسۡتَعۡجَلۡتُم بِهِۦۖ رِيحٞ فِيهَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٞ ٢٤

Falammā raʾawhu ʿāriḍam mustaqbila awdiyatihim qālū hādhā ʿāriḍum mumṭirunā, bal huwa mastaʿjaltum bih, rīḥun fīhā ʿadhābun alīm.

And when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said, "This is a cloud bringing us rain!" Rather, it is that for which you were impatient:¹ a wind, within it a painful punishment,

تُدَمِّرُ كُلَّ شَيۡءِۭ بِأَمۡرِ رَبِّهَا فَأَصۡبَحُواْ لَا يُرَىٰٓ إِلَّا مَسَٰكِنُهُمۡۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نَجۡزِي ٱلۡقَوۡمَ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ ٢٥

Tudammiru kulla shayʾim biʾamri rabbihā fa aṣbaḥū lā yurā illā masākinuhum, kadhālika najzil-qawmal-mujrimīn.

Destroying everything by command of its Lord. And they became so that nothing was seen [of them] except their dwellings. Thus do We recompense the criminal people.

وَفِي عَادٍ إِذۡ أَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلرِّيحَ ٱلۡعَقِيمَ ٤١

Wa fī ʿādin idh arsalnā ʿalayhimur-rīḥal-ʿaqīm.

And in ʿAad [was a sign], when We sent against them the barren wind.¹

مَا تَذَرُ مِن شَيۡءٍ أَتَتۡ عَلَيۡهِ إِلَّا جَعَلَتۡهُ كَٱلرَّمِيمِ ٤٢

Mā tadharu min shayʾin atat ʿalayhi illā jaʿalathu kar-ramīm.

It left nothing of what it came upon but that it made it like disintegrated ruins.

إِنَّآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ رِيحٗا صَرۡصَرٗا فِي يَوۡمِ نَحۡسٖ مُّسۡتَمِرّٖ ١٩

Innā arsalnā ʿalayhim rīḥan ṣarṣaran fī yawmi naḥsim mustamirr.

Indeed, We sent upon them a screaming wind on a day of continuous misfortune,

تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٖ مُّنقَعِرٖ ٢٠

Tanziʿun-nāsa kaʾannahum aʿjāzu nakhlim munqaʿir.

Extracting the people¹ as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.

وَأَمَّا عَادٞ فَأُهۡلِكُواْ بِرِيحٖ صَرۡصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٖ ٦

Wa ammā ʿādun fa uhlikū birīḥin ṣarṣarin ʿātiyah.

And as for ʿAad, they were destroyed by a screaming,¹ violent wind

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ سَبۡعَ لَيَالٖ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومٗاۖ فَتَرَى ٱلۡقَوۡمَ فِيهَا صَرۡعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٍ خَاوِيَةٖ ٧

Sakhkharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layāliw wa thamāniyata ayyāmin ḥusūmā, fataral-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā kaʾannahum aʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyah.

Which 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.

وَإِذۡ قُلۡتُمۡ يَٰمُوسَىٰ لَن نُّؤۡمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّىٰ نَرَى ٱللَّهَ جَهۡرَةٗ فَأَخَذَتۡكُمُ ٱلصَّٰعِقَةُ وَأَنتُمۡ تَنظُرُونَ ٥٥

Wa idh qultum yāmūsā lan nuʾmina laka ḥattā narallāha jahratan fa akhadhatkumuṣ-ṣāʿiqatu wa antum tanẓurūn.

And [recall] when you said, "O Moses, we will never believe you until we see Allāh outright"; so the thunderbolt took you while you were looking on.

فَأَخَذَتۡهُمُ ٱلصَّيۡحَةُ مُصۡبِحِينَ ٨٣

Fa akhadhathumuṣ-ṣayḥatu muṣbiḥīn.

But the shriek seized them at early morning,

فَإِنۡ أَعۡرَضُواْ فَقُلۡ أَنذَرۡتُكُمۡ صَٰعِقَةٗ مِّثۡلَ صَٰعِقَةِ عَادٖ وَثَمُودَ ١٣

Fa in aʿraḍū faqul andhartukum ṣāʿiqatam mithla ṣāʿiqati ʿādiw wa thamūd.

But if they turn away, then say, "I have warned you of a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt [that struck] ʿAad and Thamūd.

وَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَهَدَيۡنَٰهُمۡ فَٱسۡتَحَبُّواْ ٱلۡعَمَىٰ عَلَى ٱلۡهُدَىٰ فَأَخَذَتۡهُمۡ صَٰعِقَةُ ٱلۡعَذَابِ ٱلۡهُونِ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكۡسِبُونَ ١٧

Wa ammā thamūdu fahadaynāhum fastaḥabbul-ʿamā ʿalal-hudā fa akhadhathum ṣāʿiqatul-ʿadhābil-hūni bimā kānū yaksibūn.

And as for Thamūd, We guided them, but they preferred blindness over guidance, so the thunderbolt of humiliating punishment seized them for what they used to earn.

فَعَتَوۡاْ عَنۡ أَمۡرِ رَبِّهِمۡ فَأَخَذَتۡهُمُ ٱلصَّٰعِقَةُ وَهُمۡ يَنظُرُونَ ٤٤

Faʿataw ʿan amri rabbihim fa akhadhathumuṣ-ṣāʿiqatu wa hum yanẓurūn.

But they were insolent toward the command of their Lord, so the thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on.

وَأَمۡطَرۡنَا عَلَيۡهِم مَّطَرٗاۖ فَٱنظُرۡ كَيۡفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ ٨٤

Wa amṭarnā ʿalayhim maṭarā, fanẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatul-mujrimīn.

And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.

فَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمۡرُنَا جَعَلۡنَا عَٰلِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمۡطَرۡنَا عَلَيۡهَا حِجَارَةٗ مِّن سِجِّيلٖ مَّنضُودٖ ٨٢

Falammā jāʾa amrunā jaʿalnā ʿāliyahā sāfilahā wa amṭarnā ʿalayhā ḥijāratam min sijjīlim manḍūd.

So when Our command came, We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay, [which were]

مُّسَوَّمَةً عِندَ رَبِّكَۖ وَمَا هِيَ مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ بِبَعِيدٖ ٨٣

Musawwamatan ʿinda rabbik, wa mā hiya minaẓ-ẓālimīna bibaʿīd.

Marked from your Lord. And it [i.e., Allāh's punishment] is not from the wrongdoers [very] far.

فَجَعَلۡنَا عَٰلِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمۡطَرۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ حِجَارَةٗ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ٧٤

Fajaʿalnā ʿāliyahā sāfilahā wa amṭarnā ʿalayhim ḥijāratam min sijjīl.

And We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of hard clay.

إِنَّآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ حَاصِبًا إِلَّآ ءَالَ لُوطٖۖ نَّجَّيۡنَٰهُم بِسَحَرٖ ٣٤

Innā arsalnā ʿalayhim ḥāṣiban illā āla lūṭ, najjaynāhum bisaḥar.

Indeed, We sent upon them a storm of stones, except the family of Lot - We saved them before dawn.

وَلَقَدۡ أَخَذۡنَآ ءَالَ فِرۡعَوۡنَ بِٱلسِّنِينَ وَنَقۡصٖ مِّنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَذَّكَّرُونَ ١٣٠

Wa laqad akhadhnā āla firʿawna bis-sinīna wa naqṣim minath-thamarāti laʿallahum yadhdhakkarūn.

And We certainly seized¹ the people of Pharaoh with years of famine and a deficiency in fruits that perhaps they would be reminded.

فَأَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلطُّوفَانَ وَٱلۡجَرَادَ وَٱلۡقُمَّلَ وَٱلضَّفَادِعَ وَٱلدَّمَ ءَايَٰتٖ مُّفَصَّلَٰتٖ فَٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ وَكَانُواْ قَوۡمٗا مُّجۡرِمِينَ ١٣٣

Fa arsalnā ʿalayhimuṭ-ṭūfāna wal-jarāda wal-qummala waḍ-ḍafādiʿa wad-dama āyātim mufaṣṣalātin fastakbarū wa kānū qawmam mujrimīn.

So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood as distinct signs, but they were arrogant and were a criminal people.

فَأَعۡرَضُواْ فَأَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ سَيۡلَ ٱلۡعَرِمِ وَبَدَّلۡنَٰهُم بِجَنَّتَيۡهِمۡ جَنَّتَيۡنِ ذَوَاتَيۡ أُكُلٍ خَمۡطٖ وَأَثۡلٖ وَشَيۡءٖ مِّن سِدۡرٖ قَلِيلٖ ١٦

Fa aʿraḍū fa arsalnā ʿalayhim saylal-ʿarimi wa baddalnāhum bijannatayhim jannatayni dhawātay ukulin khamṭiw wa athliw wa shayʾim min sidrin qalīl.

But they turned away [refusing], so We sent upon them the flood of the dam,¹ and We replaced their two [fields of] gardens with gardens of bitter fruit, tamarisks and something of sparse lote trees.

إِنَّا بَلَوۡنَٰهُمۡ كَمَا بَلَوۡنَآ أَصۡحَٰبَ ٱلۡجَنَّةِ إِذۡ أَقۡسَمُواْ لَيَصۡرِمُنَّهَا مُصۡبِحِينَ ١٧

Innā balawnāhum kamā balawnā aṣḥābal-jannati idh aqsamū layaṣrimunnahā muṣbiḥīn.

Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning

وَلَا يَسۡتَثۡنُونَ ١٨

Wa lā yastathnūn.

Without making exception.¹

فَطَافَ عَلَيۡهَا طَآئِفٞ مِّن رَّبِّكَ وَهُمۡ نَآئِمُونَ ١٩

Faṭāfa ʿalayhā ṭāʾifum mir rabbika wa hum nāʾimūn.

So there came upon it [i.e., the garden] an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep.

فَأَصۡبَحَتۡ كَٱلصَّرِيمِ ٢٠

Fa aṣbaḥat kaṣ-ṣarīm.

And it became as though reaped.

فَكُلًّا أَخَذۡنَا بِذَنۢبِهِۦۖ فَمِنۡهُم مَّنۡ أَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِ حَاصِبٗا وَمِنۡهُم مَّنۡ أَخَذَتۡهُ ٱلصَّيۡحَةُ وَمِنۡهُم مَّنۡ خَسَفۡنَا بِهِ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَمِنۡهُم مَّنۡ أَغۡرَقۡنَاۚ وَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ لِيَظۡلِمَهُمۡ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوٓاْ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَظۡلِمُونَ ٤٠

Fakullan akhadhnā bidhanbih, faminhum man arsalnā ʿalayhi ḥāṣibaw wa minhum man akhadhathuṣ-ṣayḥatu wa minhum man khasafnā bihil-arḍa wa minhum man aghraqnā, wa mā kānallāhu liyaẓlimahum wa lākin kānū anfusahum yaẓlimūn.

So each We seized for his sin; and among them were those upon whom We sent a storm of stones, and among them were those who were seized by the blast [from the sky], and among them were those whom We caused the earth to swallow, and among them were those whom We drowned. And Allāh would not have wronged them, but it was they who were wronging themselves.

ظَهَرَ ٱلۡفَسَادُ فِي ٱلۡبَرِّ وَٱلۡبَحۡرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتۡ أَيۡدِي ٱلنَّاسِ لِيُذِيقَهُم بَعۡضَ ٱلَّذِي عَمِلُواْ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَرۡجِعُونَ ٤١

Ẓaharal-fasādu fil-barri wal-baḥri bimā kasabat aydin-nāsi liyudhīqahum baʿḍal-ladhī ʿamilū laʿallahum yarjiʿūn.

Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He [i.e., Allāh] may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness].