Verse. 1880

١٥ - ٱلْحِجْر

15 - Al-Hijr

وَاِنْ كَانَ اَصْحٰبُ الْاَيْكَۃِ لَظٰلِمِيْنَ۝۷۸ۙ
Wain kana ashabu alaykati lathalimeena

English

Ahmed Ali

The dwellers of the Wood (near Midian) were also wicked.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and the dwellers in the wood) i.e. the people of shu'ayb (indeed were evil-doers) idolaters.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and certainly (in has been softened, in other words [understand it as being] innahu) the dwellers in the wood, a huddle of trees near midian — these were the people of [the prophet] shu‘ayb — were evildoers, for denying shu‘ayb.