العنكبوت
Al-Ankabut
Surah 29
Verse 32
العنكبوت
The Spider • makkah
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العربیّا عثمانی (Arabic Uthmani)
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29:32
وَلَمَّا جَآءَتْ رُسُلُنَآ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ بِٱلْبُشْرَىٰ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا مُهْلِكُوٓا۟ أَهْلِ هَٰذِهِ ٱلْقَرْيَةِ ۖ إِنَّ أَهْلَهَا كَانُوا۟ ظَٰلِمِينَ
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
And when Our messengers brought Abraham the glad tidings, they said, ‘We are going to destroy the people of this town; surely its people are wrongdoers.’
English - Five Volume Translation
[c]And when Our messengers brought Abraham the glad tidings, they also said, ‘We are going to destroy people of this town; surely, its people are wrongdoers.’[2961]
11:70-71.
Commentary:
The verse speaks of two things: (1) the glad tidings that the messengers brought to Abraham and (2) the warning that the people of the city of Lot were about to be destroyed. The glad tidings conveyed to Abraham were about the birth of a son and the cities to be destroyed were Sodom and Gomorrah. They were situated in the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea on the road from Arabia to Syria. The road has been called سبیل مقیم (a road that still exists) in the Quran (15:77). The Dead Sea is also called the Bahr Lut.
English - Short Commentary Translation
[a]And when Our messengers brought Abraham the tidings, they said, “The tidings is, ‘We are about to destroy the people of this town; surely, its people are wrongdoers.”
11:70, 71.