Surah At-Tawba (9) — Ayah 70
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
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70. 2. Messengers came to all these nations, who were individuals from their own people. But they gave no importance to their words; rather, they chose the path of denial and stubbornness, the result of which ultimately came in the form of a painful punishment.
3. That is, this punishment was the result of their persistence and continuity in oppression; they did not become victims of Allah's punishment without reason.
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[84] These are all nations that, in their own times, were renowned. Then, when they denied Allah’s messengers and His signs, and chose the path of disobedience and opposition, a punishment from Allah, either earthly or heavenly, befell them, which utterly destroyed and ruined them. The details of such nations have already been mentioned earlier in Surah Al-A'raf, and will also be mentioned at several places ahead. The overturned towns refer to the towns of the people of Sayyiduna Lut ؑ. By Allah’s command, Sayyiduna Jibreel lifted these towns on his wing, raised them to the heights, and then hurled them down to the earth. Yet even then, Allah’s wrath upon this nation was not lessened, so a rain of stones was sent down upon them. The center of Sayyiduna Lut’s preaching was the city of Sodom. And these overturned towns are most likely now buried under the Dead Sea.
[85] That is, Allah had neither any enmity with these people, nor any desire or need to punish them; rather, the way of life they adopted and persisted in was itself a path of destruction and ruin, and this had already been conveyed to them through the messengers.
