Verse. 1867

١٥ - ٱلْحِجْر

15 - Al-Hijr

فَاَسْرِ بِاَہْلِكَ بِقِطْـعٍ مِّنَ الَّيْلِ وَاتَّبِـــعْ اَدْبَارَہُمْ وَلَا يَلْتَفِتْ مِنْكُمْ اَحَدٌ وَّامْضُوْا حَيْثُ تُؤْمَرُوْنَ۝۶۵
Faasri biahlika biqitAAin mina allayli waittabiAA adbarahum wala yaltafit minkum ahadun waimdoo haythu tumaroona

English

Ahmed Ali

"So leave with your family late in the night, yourself remaining in the rear, and let none turn back to look, and go where you will be commanded."

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (so travel with thy household in a portion of the night) at the end of the night, at dawn, (and follow you their backs) walk behind them in the direction of sa'ar . (let none of you turn round) let none of you lag behind, (but go whither ye are commanded) towards sa'ar.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : so travel with your family in a portion of the night and follow their rear, walk behind them; and let none of you turn round, lest he see the dreadful nature of that [punishment] which will be sent down on them, and go whither you are commanded’, namely, [to] syria.