Verse. 4164

٤٠ - غَافِر

40 - Ghafir

مِثْلَ دَاْبِ قَوْمِ نُوْحٍ وَّعَادٍ وَّثَمُوْدَ وَالَّذِيْنَ مِنْۢ بَعْدِہِمْ۝۰ۭ وَمَا اللہُ يُرِيْدُ ظُلْمًا لِّلْعِبَادِ۝۳۱
Mithla dabi qawmi noohin waAAadin wathamooda waallatheena min baAAdihim wama Allahu yureedu thulman lilAAibadi

English

Ahmed Ali

Like the people of Noah, 'Ad and Thamud, and those that came after them. God does not want to be unjust to His creatures.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (a plight) a punishment (like that of noah's folk, and 'aad) the folk of hud (and thamud) the folk of salih, (and those after them) among the disbelievers, (and allah willeth no injustice for (his) slaves) allah does not transgress against his slaves such that he punishes them without them having committed any crime.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : like the case of the people of noah, and ‘Ād, and thamūd, and those [who came] after them (mithla, ‘like’, substitutes for the previous mithla, ‘like’) in other words, the same requital as was customarily dealt to those who disbelieved before you, of their being chastised in this world, and god does not desire to wrong [any of] his servants.