FajaAAalna AAaliyaha safilaha waamtarna AAalayhim hijaratan min sijjeelin
English
Ahmed Ali
And We turned the city upside down, and rained on them stones of hardened lava.
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'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and we utterly confounded them) we turned their location upside down, (and we rained upon them) upon their sodomites and sinners (stones of heated clay) coming down from the first heaven; it is also said that these stones were of manure and mud which were heated up like bricks.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and we made their, that is, their cities’, topmost part their nethermost, by gabriel’s raising them [the cities] to the heaven and dropping them face down onto the earth, and we rained on them stones of baked clay, clay baked in fire.
