سُوْرَةُ الْفَجْرِ

Surah Al-Fajr (89) — Ayah 13

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فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ ﴿13﴾
So your Lord poured on them different kinds of severe torment.
فَصَبَّ faṣabba So poured
عَلَيْهِمْ ʿalayhim on them
رَبُّكَ rabbuka your Lord
سَوْطَ sawṭa scourge
عَذَابٍ ʿadhābin (of) punishment

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(Ayah 13){ فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ :} Upon some of them, We sent a storm of stones; some were seized by a blast; some We caused to be swallowed by the earth; and some We drowned. For details, see the commentary of Surah Al-Ankabut, Ayah (40).

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13. 1. That is, by sending down His punishment upon them from the sky, He destroyed them or subjected them to a dreadful end.

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13. So your Lord unleashed upon them the scourge of punishment [10],

[10] The common factor in these three historical events is that all these nations were deniers of the Hereafter. And any individual or nation that does not believe in the Hereafter lives its life recklessly and unrestrained, and becomes involved in wickedness and immorality. And when they go beyond a certain limit, their measure of sins becomes full and they fall into the grip of Allah's punishment. The argument drawn from these events is that the belief in the Hereafter is not merely an imaginary concept, but a solid reality. And just as a person is shattered when he confronts a solid reality, so too has this been the fate of the deniers of the Hereafter in the past, and so it will be in the future.