سُوْرَةُ الْعَنْكَبُوْتِ
Surah Al-Ankaboot (29) — Ayah 34
إِنَّا مُنزِلُونَ عَلَىٰٓ أَهْلِ هَـٰذِهِ ٱلْقَرْيَةِ رِجْزًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْسُقُونَ ﴿34﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
"Verily, we are about to bring down on the people of this town a great torment from the sky, because they have been rebellious (against Allâh’s Command)."
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
إِنَّا
innā
Indeed, we
مُنزِلُونَ
munzilūna
(will) bring down
عَلَىٰٓ
ʿalā
on
أَهْلِ
ahli
(the) people
هَـٰذِهِ
hādhihi
(of) this
ٱلْقَرْيَةِ
l-qaryati
town
رِجْزًۭا
rij'zan
a punishment
مِّنَ
mina
from
ٱلسَّمَآءِ
l-samāi
(the) sky
بِمَا
bimā
because
كَانُوا۟
kānū
they have been
يَفْسُقُونَ
yafsuqūna
defiantly disobedient
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.
34-1. By this heavenly punishment, the same punishment is meant through which the people of Lot were destroyed. It is said that Jibreel ؑ uprooted their towns from the earth and took them up to the heights of the sky, then turned them upside down upon them. After that, a rain of stones of baked clay fell upon them, and that place was transformed into a foul-smelling lake (Ibn Kathir).
