سُوْرَةُ الْمُؤْمِنُوْنَ
Surah Al-Muminoon (23) — Ayah 76
وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَـٰهُم بِٱلْعَذَابِ فَمَا ٱسْتَكَانُوا۟ لِرَبِّهِمْ وَمَا يَتَضَرَّعُونَ ﴿76﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
And indeed We seized them with punishment, but they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor did they invoke (Allâh) with submission to Him.
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
وَلَقَدْ
walaqad
And verily
أَخَذْنَـٰهُم
akhadhnāhum
We seized them
بِٱلْعَذَابِ
bil-ʿadhābi
with the punishment
فَمَا
famā
but not
ٱسْتَكَانُوا۟
is'takānū
they submit
لِرَبِّهِمْ
lirabbihim
to their Lord
وَمَا
wamā
and not
يَتَضَرَّعُونَ
yataḍarraʿūna
they supplicate humbly
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan — Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan is a well-known Quran commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf, a renowned Salafi (Ahl al-Hadith) scholar from Pakistan. This tafsir explains the meanings of the Quran in accordance with the methodology of the Salaf (early righteous generations), relying on authentic sources and straightforward language. Due to its reliability and adherence to sound Islamic scholarship, the Saudi government publishes and distributes this tafsir among the Hujjaj (pilgrims) visiting the Haramain. The tafsir is originally written in Urdu, translated to English by tohed.com.
76-1. By "punishment" here is meant either the defeat that the disbelievers of Makkah suffered in the Battle of Badr, in which seventy of their men were killed, or the punishment of famine that befell them as a result of the supplication of the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ prayed, "O Allah, just as there was a seven-year famine in the time of Yusuf, afflict them with famine and help me against them." Thus, the disbelievers of Makkah were afflicted with this famine, upon which Sufyan came to the Prophet ﷺ and, invoking Allah and the ties of kinship, said that now they had been forced to eat animal skins and even blood. Upon this, the verse was revealed (Ibn Kathir).
