Surah 17 Al-Israa — Ayah 58
وَإِن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا نَحْنُ مُهْلِكُوهَا قَبْلَ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ أَوْ مُعَذِّبُوهَا عَذَابًۭا شَدِيدًۭا ۚ كَانَ ذَٰلِكَ فِى ٱلْكِتَٰبِ مَسْطُورًۭا
A nebylo města bezbožného, jež bychom nebyli zahubili či trestem strašným nepotrestali přede dnem zmrtvýchvstání; a takto je to napsáno v Knize původní.
wa-in min qaryatin illā naḥnu muh'likūhā qabla yawmi l-qiyāmati aw muʿadhibūhā ʿadhāban shadīdan kāna dhālika fī l-kitābi masṭūran
Word by word
- وَإِن wa-in And not
- مِّن min (is) any
- قَرْيَةٍ qaryatin town
- إِلَّا illā but
- نَحْنُ naḥnu We
- مُهْلِكُوهَا muh'likūhā (will) destroy it
- قَبْلَ qabla before
- يَوْمِ yawmi (the) Day
- ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ l-qiyāmati (of) the Resurrection
- أَوْ aw or
- مُعَذِّبُوهَا muʿadhibūhā punish it
- عَذَابًۭا ʿadhāban with a punishment
- شَدِيدًۭا ۚ shadīdan severe
- كَانَ kāna That is
- ذَٰلِكَ dhālika That is
- فِى fī in
- ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ l-kitābi the Book
- مَسْطُورًۭا masṭūran written
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Destruction or Torment of all Disbelieving Towns before the Hour begins
Here Allah tells us that He has decreed and it is written in Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz (The Preserved Tablet) which is with Him, that there is no town that He will not destroy by wiping out all its people or by punishing them,
(with a severe torment.) either by killing them or sending calamities upon them as He wills. This will be because of their sins, as Allah says of the past nations:
(We wronged them not, but they wronged themselves.) 11:101
(So it tasted the evil result of its affair (disbelief), and the consequence of its affair (disbelief) was loss.) 65:9
(And many a town (population) revolted against the command of its Lord and His Messengers;) 65:8 and many Ayat.