Sure 23 Al-Muminoon — Aya 44
ثُمَّ أَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلَنَا تَتْرَا ۖ كُلَّ مَا جَآءَ أُمَّةًۭ رَّسُولُهَا كَذَّبُوهُ ۚ فَأَتْبَعْنَا بَعْضَهُم بَعْضًۭا وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ أَحَادِيثَ ۚ فَبُعْدًۭا لِّقَوْمٍۢ لَّا يُؤْمِنُونَ
Dann entsandten Wir Unsere Gesandten, einen nach dem anderen. Sooft ein Gesandter zu seinem Volke kam, ziehen sie ihn der Lüge. So ließen Wir sie einander folgen und machten ihr (Schicksal) zu (viel erzählten) Geschichten. Verflucht sei denn das Volk, das nicht glaubt!
thumma arsalnā rusulanā tatrā kulla mā jāa ummatan rasūluhā kadhabūhu fa-atbaʿnā baʿḍahum baʿḍan wajaʿalnāhum aḥādītha fabuʿ'dan liqawmin lā yu'minūna
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- ثُمَّ thumma Then
- أَرْسَلْنَا arsalnā We sent
- رُسُلَنَا rusulanā Our Messengers
- تَتْرَا ۖ tatrā (in) succession
- كُلَّ kulla Every time
- مَا mā Every time
- جَآءَ jāa came
- أُمَّةًۭ ummatan (to) a nation
- رَّسُولُهَا rasūluhā its Messenger
- كَذَّبُوهُ ۚ kadhabūhu they denied him
- فَأَتْبَعْنَا fa-atbaʿnā so We made (them) follow
- بَعْضَهُم baʿḍahum some of them
- بَعْضًۭا baʿḍan others
- وَجَعَلْنَـٰهُمْ wajaʿalnāhum and We made them
- أَحَادِيثَ ۚ aḥādītha narrations
- فَبُعْدًۭا fabuʿ'dan So away
- لِّقَوْمٍۢ liqawmin with a people
- لَّا lā not
- يُؤْمِنُونَ yu'minūna they believe
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Mention of Other Nations Allah says:
(Then, after them, We created other generations.) meaning, nations and peoples.
(No nation can advance their term, nor can they delay it.) means, they are taken at the appropriate time, as decreed by Allah in His Book that is preserved with Him, before they were created, nation after nation, century after century, generation after generation, successors after predecessors.
(Then We sent Our Messengers in succession.) Ibn `Abbas said, "(This means) following one another in succession." This is like the Ayah:
(And verily, We have sent among every Ummah a Messenger (proclaiming): "Worship Allah, and avoid Taghut (all false deities)." Then of them were some whom Allah guided and of them were some upon whom the straying was justified) 16:36.
(Every time there came to a nation their Messenger, they denied him;) meaning the greater majority of them. This is like the Ayah:
(Alas for mankind! There never came a Messenger to them but they used to mock at him.) 36:30
(so We made them follow one another,) means, `We destroyed them,' as Allah says:
(And how many generations have We destroyed after Nuh!) 17:17
(and We made them as Ahadith) meaning, stories and lessons for mankind, as Allah says elsewhere:
(so, We made them as tales (in the land), and We dispersed them all totally) 34:19.