Verse. 4834

٥٣ - ٱلنَّجْم

53 - An-Najm

وَاَنَّہٗۗ اَہْلَكَ عَادَۨا الْاُوْلٰى۝۵۰ۙ
Waannahu ahlaka AAadan aloola

English

Ahmed Ali

That it was He who destroyed the 'Ad of old,

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and that he destroyed the former (tribe of) 'aad) the folk of hud,

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and that he destroyed former ‘Ād (‘Ādan al-ūlā: a variant reading elides the nunation with the [following] lām [sc. ‘Āda’l-ūlā]; this [former one] refers to the people of ‘Ād, while the second [‘Ād] is that of the people of sālih)