How many habitations that were sinful have We demolished utterly, and raised other people after them.
And many a township did We destroy, for they were unjust, and We created other nations after them.
How many a city that was evildoing We have shattered, and set up after it another people!
For, how many a community that persisted in evildoing have We dashed into fragments, and raised another people in its stead!
And how many a city have We overthrown which were doing wrong, and We caused to grow up thereafter anot her nation!
How many a town (community), that were wrong-doers, have We destroyed, and raised up after them another people!
How many a guilty town have We crushed, and established thereafter another people?
How many a wrong-doing town did We shatter and then raise up another people.
How many a town given to wrongdoing, have We destroyed, and raised up after them another people!
How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk!
How many a town We have smashed that had been wrongdoing, and We brought forth another people after it.
How many harmdoing villages have We shattered and replaced them with another nation.
And how many a city which was unjust have We shattered and produced after it another people.
How many unjust towns did We destroy and replace them with other nations?
And how many a town which was iniquitous did We demolish, and We raised up after it another people!
Wakam qa<u>s</u>amn<u>a</u> min qaryatin k<u>a</u>nat <i><u>th</u></i><u>a</u>limatan waanshan<u>a</u> baAAdah<u>a</u> qawman <u>a</u>khareen<b>a</b>
How many communities of evil-doers We have destroyed, raising up other people after them.
How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?
وَكَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةً وَأَنشَأْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْمًا ءَاخَرِينَ
There are many towns which I destroyed due to their injustice through disbelief, and I created other people after them.
There are many towns which I destroyed due to their injustice through disbelief, and I created other people after them.
<p>Commentary</p><p>These verses describe the destruction of those settlements which some exegesists have taken as Fladhura' ) حضُوراء) and Qilabah (قلابہ) of Yemen. Allah Ta` ala had sent there a prophet about whose name there are different versions. Some say he was Musa Ibn Misha while others say his name was Shu` aib, in which case he was a different prophet from the one who lived in Madyan. This Prophet was killed by his people, who were, as a punishment annihilated by the infidel King Nabucad Nazzar.</p><p>This King was placed in authority over them just as he was used as an instrument for the punishment of Bani Isra'i1 when they strayed from the righteous path in Palestine. In fact, Qur'an has not identified any specific settlement. Hence it will be apt to leave the subject open, so that these settlements of Yemen may also come in its ambit. واللہ (Only Allah knows best).</p>
CommentaryThese verses describe the destruction of those settlements which some exegesists have taken as Fladhura' ) حضُوراء) and Qilabah (قلابہ) of Yemen. Allah Ta` ala had sent there a prophet about whose name there are different versions. Some say he was Musa Ibn Misha while others say his name was Shu` aib, in which case he was a different prophet from the one who lived in Madyan. This Prophet was killed by his people, who were, as a punishment annihilated by the infidel King Nabucad Nazzar.This King was placed in authority over them just as he was used as an instrument for the punishment of Bani Isra'i1 when they strayed from the righteous path in Palestine. In fact, Qur'an has not identified any specific settlement. Hence it will be apt to leave the subject open, so that these settlements of Yemen may also come in its ambit. واللہ (Only Allah knows best).