Verse. 4719

٥١ - ٱلذَّارِيَات

51 - Adh-Dhariyat

فَعَتَوْا عَنْ اَمْرِ رَبِّہِمْ فَاَخَذَتْہُمُ الصّٰعِقَۃُ وَ ہُمْ يَنْظُرُوْنَ۝۴۴
FaAAataw AAan amri rabbihim faakhathathumu alssaAAiqatu wahum yanthuroona

English

Ahmed Ali

But they disobeyed the command of their Lord; so they were destroyed by a thunderbolt, and they could only gape,

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (but they rebelled against their lord's decree) they refused to comply to their lord's command, (and so the thunderbolt) the cry of doom (overtook them even while they gazed) while looking at the torment descending upon them;

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : then they defied, they scorned, the command of their lord, [refraining] from implementing it; so the thunderbolt, that is, the destructive cry, seized them, after the three days had passed, as they were looking around, in other words, [it seized them] in the daytime.