Verse. 2578

٢١ - ٱلْأَنْبِيَاء

21 - Al-Anbiya

وَحَرٰمٌ عَلٰي قَرْيَۃٍ اَہْلَكْنٰہَاۗ اَنَّہُمْ لَا يَرْجِعُوْنَ۝۹۵
Waharamun AAala qaryatin ahlaknaha annahum la yarjiAAoona

English

Ahmed Ali

It is imperative that a habitation We have destroyed will not desist (from unbelief)

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and there is a ban upon) an absence of success for (any community) for the people of mecca: abu jahl and his host (which we have destroyed) which we have forsaken through their disbelief: (that they shall not return) to faith from their disbelief; it is also said that the verse means: it is forbidden for the people of mecca, whom we have destroyed on the day of badr through killing them, to return to this worldly life,

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : it is forbidden for any town, meaning [it is forbidden for] its people, which we have destroyed that they should (lā yarji‘ūna: the lā is extra) return, that is, their return to this world is prohibited.