Surah 9 At-Tawba — Ayah 70
أَلَمْ يَأْتِهِمْ نَبَأُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ قَوْمِ نُوحٍۢ وَعَادٍۢ وَثَمُودَ وَقَوْمِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَأَصْحَٰبِ مَدْيَنَ وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَٰتِ ۚ أَتَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ ۖ فَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ
그들 이전에 노아와 아드와 사무드와 아브라함과 마드얀과 망한 마을에 대한 얘기가 그들에 게 이르지 아니했더뇨 그들의 예 언자들이 예증들을 가지고 그들 에게 이르렀으나 실로 그들을 우 롱하게 한 것은 하나님이 아니라 그들이 스스로를 어리석게 하였노라
alam yatihim naba-u alladhīna min qablihim qawmi nūḥin waʿādin wathamūda waqawmi ib'rāhīma wa-aṣḥābi madyana wal-mu'tafikāti atathum rusuluhum bil-bayināti famā kāna l-lahu liyaẓlimahum walākin kānū anfusahum yaẓlimūna
Word by word
- أَلَمْ alam Has not
- يَأْتِهِمْ yatihim come to them
- نَبَأُ naba-u (the) news
- ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna (of) those who
- مِن min (were) before them
- قَبْلِهِمْ qablihim (were) before them
- قَوْمِ qawmi (the) people
- نُوحٍۢ nūḥin (of) Nuh
- وَعَادٍۢ waʿādin and Aad
- وَثَمُودَ wathamūda and Thamud
- وَقَوْمِ waqawmi and (the) people
- إِبْرَٰهِيمَ ib'rāhīma (of) Ibrahim
- وَأَصْحَـٰبِ wa-aṣḥābi and (the) companions
- مَدْيَنَ madyana (of) Madyan
- وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَـٰتِ ۚ wal-mu'tafikāti and the towns overturned
- أَتَتْهُمْ atathum Came to them
- رُسُلُهُم rusuluhum their Messengers
- بِٱلْبَيِّنَـٰتِ ۖ bil-bayināti with clear proofs
- فَمَا famā And not
- كَانَ kāna was
- ٱللَّهُ l-lahu Allah
- لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ liyaẓlimahum to wrong them
- وَلَـٰكِن walākin but
- كَانُوٓا۟ kānū they were (to)
- أَنفُسَهُمْ anfusahum themselves
- يَظْلِمُونَ yaẓlimūna doing wrong
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Advising the Hypocrites to learn a Lesson from Those before Them
Allah advises the hypocrites who reject the Messengers,
(Has not the story reached them of those before them) have you (hypocrites) not learned the end of the nations before you who rejected the Messengers,
(The people of Nuh), and the flood that drowned the entire population of the earth, except those who believed in Allah's servant and Messenger Nuh, peace be upon him,
(and `Ad), who perished with the barren wind when they rejected Hud, peace be upon him,
(and Thamud), who were overtaken by the Sayhah (awful cry) when they denied Salih, peace be upon him, and killed the camel,
(and the people of Ibrahim), over whom He gave Ibrahim victory and the aid of clear miracles. Allah destroyed their king Nimrod, son of Canaan, son of Koch from Canaan, may Allah curse him,
(and the dwellers of Madyan), the people of Shu`ayb, peace be upon him, who were destroyed by the earthquake and the torment of the day of the Shade,
(and the overturned cities), the people of Lut who used to live in Madyan. Allah said in another Ayah,
(And He destroyed the overturned cities) 53:53, meaning the people of the overturned cities in reference to Sadum Sodom, their major city. Allah destroyed them all because they rejected Allah's Prophet Lut, peace be upon him, and because they committed the sin that none before them had committed homosexuality.
(to them came their Messengers with clear proofs.), and unequivocal evidence,
(So it was not Allah Who wronged them), when He destroyed them, for He established the proofs against them by sending the Messengers and dissipating the doubts,
(but they used to wrong themselves), on account of their denying the Messengers and defying the Truth; this is why they earned the end, torment and punishment, that they did.