Surah Al-Isra
Quran 17:16
Read Quran 17:16 from Surah Al-Isra (The Night Journey) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 17:16
And when We would destroy a township We send commandment to its folk who live at ease, and afterward they commit abomination therein, and so the Word (of doom) hath effect for it, and we annihilate it with complete annihilation.
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 17. Al-Isra (The Night Journey)
- Ayah
- 16 of 111
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 17:16
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 17:16
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
يخبر تعالى أنه إذا أراد أن يهلك قرية من القرى الظالمة ويستأصلها بالعذاب أمر مترفيها أمرا قدريا ففسقوا فيها واشتد طغيانهم، { فَحَقَّ عَلَيْهَا الْقَوْلُ } أي: كلمة العذاب التي لا مرد لها { فَدَمَّرْنَاهَا تَدْمِيرًا }