Verse. 4451

٤٤ - ٱلدُّخَان

44 - Ad-Dukhan

اَہُمْ خَيْرٌ اَمْ قَوْمُ تُبَّعٍ۝۰ۙ وَّ الَّذِيْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِہِمْ۝۰ۭ اَہْلَكْنٰہُمْ۝۰ۡاِنَّہُمْ كَانُوْا مُجْرِمِيْنَ۝۳۷
Ahum khayrun am qawmu tubbaAAin waallatheena min qablihim ahlaknahum innahum kanoo mujrimeena

English

Ahmed Ali

Are they better than the people of Tubba, and those who had lived before them, whom We destroyed as they were sinners?

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : allah said (are they better) are your people better, (or the folk of tubba') or the people of himyar, whose name was as'ad ibn malkikarb and his agnomen was abu karb, he was called tubba' because he had a great number of followers (and those before them) before the people of tubba'? (we destroyed them, for surely they were guilty) they were idolaters. would your people not fear that we destroy them and punish them?

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : god, exalted be he, says: are they better, or the people of tubba‘ — [he was] a prophet or a righteous man — and those, communities, before them? we destroyed, because of their disbelief. in other words: they are not mightier than those, and yet they were destroyed; indeed they were criminals.