"We have been sent," they said, "to (punish) a sinful people,
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (they said: we have been sent unto a guilty folk) to idolaters who brought destruction upon themselves because of their evil acts, meaning here the people of lot.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : they said, ‘we have been sent to a sinning folk, a disbelieving [folk], namely, the people of lot, in order to destroy them;
