Verse. 1555

١١ - هُود

11 - Houd

فَلَمَّا جَاۗءَ اَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَالِيَہَا سَافِلَہَا وَاَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْہَا حِجَارَۃً مِّنْ سِجِّيْلٍ۝۰ۥۙ مَّنْضُوْدٍ۝۸۲ۙ
Falamma jaa amruna jaAAalna AAaliyaha safilaha waamtarna AAalayha hijaratan min sijjeelin mandoodin

English

Ahmed Ali

So when the decreed moment arrived, We turned the habitations upside down, and rained upon them stones of hardened lava in quick succession,

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (so when our commandment) when our chastisement (came to pass) to destroy them (we overthrew (that township)) we turned it upside down (and rained upon it) upon its sodomites and those who travelled there (stones of clay) mixed with manure and mud, like bricks; it is also said that this means: from the first heaven, (one after another) in succession, one after another,

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : so when our command, for their destruction, came to pass we made their uppermost, that is, their cities, the nethermost — when gabriel raised them to the sky and dropped them upside down to the earth, and we rained upon them stones of baked clay, clay baked in fire, one after another,